I told Captain Rintoul afterwards that I
must consult someone else, for that really I could not bear such
rudeness."
"I am afraid we are all against you, Mrs. Rintoul," Mrs. Doolan
said, with a little shake of her head at Isobel, who was, she saw,
going to speak out strongly. "No one could possibly be kinder than
he is when anyone is really ill. I mean seriously ill," she added,
as Mrs. Rintoul drew herself up indignantly. "I shall never forget
how attentive he was to the children when they were down with
fever just before he went to England. He missed his ship and lost
a month of his leave because he would not go away till they were
out of danger, and there are very few men who would have done that.
I shall never forget his kindness. And now let us talk of something
else. You will have to establish a little mess on your own account,
Mr. Wilson, as both the Captains are married men, and the Major
has also an incumbrance."
"Yes, it will be horribly dull, Mrs. Doolan. Richards and I have
quarters together here, and, of course, it will be the same there,
and I am sure I don't know what we shall find to talk about when
we come to have to mess together. Of course, here, there are the
messroom and the club, and so we get on very well, but to be together
always will be awful."
"You will really have to take to reading or something of that sort,
Mr. Wilson," Isobel laughed.
"I always do read the Field, Miss Hannay, but that won't last for a
whole week, you know; and there is no billiard table, and no racquet
court, or anything else at Deennugghur, and one cannot always be
riding about the country.
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