What does it mean ?" "I'll tell you," answered the Major, confidentially.

"Arthur Bervie is madly in love--madly is really the word--with a Miss Bowmore.

And (this is between ourselves) the young lady doesn't feel it quite in the same way.

A sweet girl; I've often had her on my knee when she was a child.
Her father and mother are old friends of mine.

She is coming to the ball to-night.