Accordingly he took Leslie away and after a brief absence brought her back, told her aunt she was a most fraudulent affair regarded as a patient, and departed.
Leslie, who was feeling better every day, was in such spirits after Dr. Ford’s visit as rejoiced her uncle and aunt. She, Lydia, Philip and Mr. Needham began to talk, rather noisily, about what they would do after the war, while Octavia gave Lady Waring and Noel a short but informative lecture on Social Credit, not one word of which, as they found afterwards on comparing notes, had they understood or wished to understand, though much struck by the lecturer’s power of apparently making things clear, while Sir Harry read The Times.
Mr. Needham’s hopes were definite enough; a living and to settle down with Octavia. And if he did not
