“ You will have more, though?”
“ I shan’t have more than £ 200 a year for ten years to come. I shall always be poor, if I have to live on my pay.”
“ Do you mind it?”
“ Being poor? Not now—not very much. I may later. People—the officers, are good to me. Colonel Hepburn has a sort of fancy for me—he is a rich man, I suppose.”
A chill went over Ursula. Was he going to sell himself in some way?
“ Is Colonel Hepburn married?”
“ Yes—with two daughters.”
But she was too proud at once to care whether Colonel Hepburn’s daughter wanted to marry him or not.
There came a silence. Gudrun entered, and Skrebensky still rocked languidly on the chair.
“ You look very lazy,” said Gudrun.
“ I am lazy,” he answered.
“ You look really floppy,” she said.
“ I am floppy,” he answer
