At the same time he could not help thinking that Lord Castleford was too self-confident and that it would in fact do him good if he fell in love and suffered the heartburn, the pangs of despair and the agony of indecision that most men passed through at some time in their lives.
But he was too experienced a diplomat to say anything. He merely changed the subject to talk of Greece in which Lord Castleford was at once absorbedly interested.
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The following day when Lord Castleford returned from riding, which was an exercise he preferred above all others, Lord Stratford had news for him.
“I have discovered that The Himalaya will be leaving here the day after tomorrow,” he said, “carrying a large number of casualties who are too badly wounded to return to the front, but well enough to endu
