"
"He is a many sided man, my dear; he paints excellently, and has
wonderful taste in the way of dress. I can assure you that no lady
in the regiment is quite satisfied with a new costume until it has
received the stamp of the Doctor's approval. When we were stationed
at Delhi four years ago there was a fancy ball, and people who
were judges of that sort of thing said that they had never seen so
pretty a collection of dresses, and I should think fully half of
them were manufactured from the Doctor's sketches."
"I remember now," Isobel laughed, "that he was very sarcastic on
board ship as to the dresses of some of the people, but I thought
it was only his way of grumbling at things in general, though
certainly I generally agreed with him. He told me one day that
my taste evidently inclined to the dowdy, but you see I wore half
mourning until I arrived out here."
The Doctor himself dropped in an hour later.
"I shall be glad, Doctor, if you will dine with us as often as
you can during the four days of the races," Major Hannay said. "Of
course, I shall be doing the hospitable to people who come in from
out stations, and as Isobel won't know any of them, it will be
a little trying to her, acting for the first time in the capacity
of hostess. As you know everybody, you will be able to make things
go. I have got Hunter and his wife and their two girls coming in to
stay. I calculate the table will hold fourteen comfortably enough.
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