"I suppose you've been hunting?" she asked.
"Yes; they put up a couple of horses for me, or I couldn't have afforded it."
"She is so good-natured."
"Mrs. Jones! I should think she was; but I'm not quite sure that she intended to be very good-natured to me."
"Why not?" Mary, of course, understood it all; but she could not pretend to understand it, at any rate as yet.
"Oh, I don't know. It was all fair, and I won't complain. She had got Miss Green off her hands, and therefore she wanted something to do. I'm going to exchange, Lady George, into an Indian regiment."
"You're not in earnest."
"Quite in earnest. My wing will be at Aden, at the bottom of the Red Sea, for the next year or two. Aden, I'm told, is a charming place."
"I thought it was hot."
"I like hot places; and as I have got rather sick of society I shall do very well there, because there's none. A fellow can't spend any money, except in soda and brandy. I suppose I shall take to drink."