president of the Society for the Suppression of Nicotine and the

Nude, vice-president of the Anti-Inebriation League, secretary of the

Incorporated Brotherhood of Benevolence, and the bearer of divers

similar honours.

"I am never really happy in the country," Mrs. Saumarez dissented; "it

reminds me so constantly of our rural drama. I am always afraid the

quartette may come on and sing something."

Kathleen Eppes Saumarez, as I hope you do not need to be told, is

the well-known lecturer before women's clubs, and the author of many

sympathetic stories of Nature and animal life of the kind that have