"Oh, nothing definite. Only he's been a little irregular of late. I haven't seen him for over a week. I don't think anybody has."
"He's a captain in the Twelfth, isn't he?"
"Yes. O Dick! You heard what that spiteful Warren girl said about tin soldiers?"
"Of course. Nonsense!"
"I can't help it. It's Honor, you know!"
"You mean you think he mayn't turn up?"
"I can't—I won't think that."
"But he hasn't?—and they're beginning to talk?"
"You heard for yourself."
"Oh, that!"