"Where are the Merediths, by the way?"
"They are stationed at Darjeeling, which suits the baby very well—perhaps you don't know that there is another baby?"
"I believe Jack wrote something of the sort, some little time back."
"A baby girl this time, and getting on splendidly."
"Where is the first?—still with the grandparents?"
"Yes. I saw him not long ago—such a beautiful boy and so independent! The old people are so proud of him. Do you know that Jack and Kitty are at home?"
"No! When did they come? I did not know that women were allowed passages?"
"They managed to 'wangle' it, somehow. Jack had malaria and was ordered home by the doctors. It was a most exciting voyage, from all accounts, for their boat was chased by a submarine in the Bay of Biscay and escaped two torpedoes by a miracle."
"Horrible!"
"Kitty says she would not have missed the experience for anything; but Jack declares the anxiety has taken ten years off his life."