Won't you ring the bell instead ?" she continued, raising her voice.
Lessingham did as he was asked, and affected not to notice Mrs.
Johnson's inviting smile as he returned.

Philippa made room for him by her side.
"Helen and I were talking this afternoon, Mr.Lessingham," she said, "of the days when you and Dick were both in the Magdalen Eleven and both had just a chance of being chosen for the Varsity.

You never played, did you ?" He shook his head.
"No such luck.

In any case, Richard would have been in well before me.

I always maintained that he was the first of our googlie bowlers." "So you were at Magdalen with Major Felstead ?" another caller remarked in mild wonder.
"Mr.Lessingham and my brother were great friends," Philippa explained.
"Mr.Lessingham used to come down to shoot in Cheshire." Lady Cranston's guests were all conscious of a little indefinable disappointment.