He happens to be at home.

He will, of course, enter the service, and he might learn something, perhaps, which afterward will be of use--one never knows." "By all means," said Sutch, with alacrity.

For since his visits to General Feversham were limited to the occasion of these anniversary dinners, he had never yet seen Harry Feversham.
Sutch had for many years been puzzled as to the qualities in General Feversham which had attracted Muriel Graham, a woman as remarkable for the refinement of her intellect as for the beauty of her person; and he could never find an explanation.

He had to be content with his knowledge that for some mysterious reason she had married this man so much older than herself and so unlike to her in character.

Personal courage and an indomitable self-confidence were the chief, indeed the only, qualities which sprang to light in General Feversham.