Why, I should be leaving the shop with nobody in it about twice a week, and he'd have to go the round of all the barracks in London, looking for me.

I shall save up and get myself into a lunatic asylum, that's what I shall do.' "Ethelbertha began to grow quite troubled.

'But surely this is something altogether new, Amenda,' she said; 'you must have often met soldiers when you've been out in London ?' "'Oh yes, one or two at a time, walking about anyhow, I can stand that all right.

It's when there's a lot of them with a band that I lose my head.' "'You don't know what it's like, mum,' she added, noticing Ethelbertha's puzzled expression; 'you've never had it.

I only hope you never may.' "We kept a careful watch over Amenda during the remainder of our stay at Folkestone, and an anxious time we had of it.