Armstrong settled down to his duties with his two pupils--or rather his three pupils, for Miss Jill made a point of receiving lessons too.

Miss Rosalind worked away at her painting, and succeeded in evoking a glimmering interest in art in the Philistine breasts of her two students.

The young people divided their leisure between riding, cricket, tennis, and yachting.
Mrs Ingleton, as the weeks went by, not only grew more pale, but began to be aware of the attentions of her sympathetic kinsman, and to be sorely perplexed and disturbed thereat.

And the Captain himself received his Indian letters regularly by each mail, and confessed to himself that, but for two considerations--one appertaining to love, the other to hate--he had better far have remained in Her Majesty's service abroad..