The major, I am afraid, will be a trifle difficult to get on with this evening.

As a matter of fact, he isn't used to it, though he was, one understands, rather popular at the mess table.

That's a trifle significant, considering what is said about us, isn't it, Mr.Ainslie ?" "Ah," said Ainslie, "we're a maligned people; and the pity of it is that it's our own people who give us away.

You don't believe in doing that in the Colonies ?" "No," laughed Ida, "we are rather fond of making it clear that we are quite above the average as a people.

However, it's excusable, perhaps, for, after all, there's a germ of truth in it.