Before them loomed up the outline of Mainsail Haul.
"You will come in and have some tea, won't you ?" she invited.
"If I may.

Believe me," he added, "it has only been a certain diffidence that has kept me away so long." She made no reply, and they entered the house together.

They found Helen and Nora, with three or four young men from the Depot, having tea in the drawing-room.

Lessingham slipped very easily into the pleasant little circle.

If a trifle subdued, his quiet manners, and a sense of humour which every now and then displayed itself, were most attractive.
"Wish you'd come and dine with us and meet our colonel, sir," Harrison asked him.