When I told Ross that I was going to marry Captain Ellsley in the summer, he said coldly,—
'Never heard of the chap.'
'But,' I said, 'you must have heard of him, he's——'
'You don't mean the Ellsley; that man that climbs in the Himalayas?'
'Yes, I do, Ross.'
'My hat,' he exclaimed, 'why he might have married anybody,' and then he stared at me as if he had suddenly seen me in quite a new light and put an arm round me and called me 'Jonathan' and said,—
'Oh, Meg, I'll have to change into the Indian Army so that I can murder him if he isn't good to you!'
Funny old 'David.'
CHAPTER XI
Here's more than half the summer slipped away. The house has buzzed and overflowed with the boys whom Ross brings home.