"His illness has affected his temper, and he is sometimes hardly responsible for his actions." "Oh, I knew that he was irritable and hasty, and that Derrick annoyed him.

Lawrence told me that, long ago," said Freda.

"But that he should have done such a thing as that! It is horrible! Poor Derrick, how sorry I am for him.

I hope we shall see something of them at Bath.

Do you know how the Major is ?" "I had a letter about him from Derrick only this evening," I replied; "if you care to see it, I will show it you later on." And by-and-by, in the drawing-room, I put Derrick's letter into her hands, and explained to her how for a few months he had given up his life at Bath, in despair, but now had returned.
"I don't think Lawrence can understand the state of things," she said wistfully.