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But he worried every soldier that he knew with inquiries as to whether there wasn't a chance for him in some battalion: "I've taken great care of my health," he said. "I do exercises every day after my bath; I'm young-looking for my age, don't you think? And anyway, a bullet might find me instead of a more useful man." No one laughed then at Mr. Withells and his exercises.
"But I have the greatest objection, both on sanitary and moral grounds to " "I can't imagine anyone wanting to kiss you," Jan interrupted furiously; "you're far too puffy and stippled." And she ran from him as though an angry bull were after her. Mr. Withells stood stock-still where he was, in pained astonishment.
Withells I propose that we allow him to study his children and how can he study them if they are never left with him? Let him realise what it would be if he had them with him constantly, and no interfering aunt to keep them in order do you understand, Jan? Have you tumbled to it? You are losing a perfectly magnificent opportunity."
Withells, and that was the way he shook hands, "exactly as if he had no thumbs. If he's so afraid of touching one as all that comes to, why doesn't he let it alone?" Yet the apparently thumbless hands were constantly occupied in bearing gifts of all kinds to his friends.
"I must see those Darwin tulips over there." "It's very sunny over there," he objected. "Come down the nut-walk and see the myosotis arvensis; it is already in bloom, the weather has been so warm. "Miss Ross," Mr. Withells continued seriously, as they turned into the nut-walk which led back towards the house, "we have known each other for a considerable time...."
Two people, however, took Hugo's attitude of profound dejection in the way he expected and liked it to be taken. These were Mr. Withells and Hannah. Mr. Withells did not bear Jan a grudge because of her momentary lapse from good manners.
Withells was settled at the Grange some years before Miss Janet Ross left her house to Jan, and he was already a person of importance and influence in that part of the county when Anthony Ross and his daughters first spent a whole summer there. Mr. Withells proved most neighbourly.
"Yes," in answer to his aunt's inquiry, "I do know people down there, but I'm not going to stay with them. I'm going to the inn one's freer, you know, and if the sport's good I may stay on a few days." Mr. Withells came again for Hugo on Saturday morning and proposed a run right over to Cheltenham for a rose show. Hugo declined the rose show, but gratefully accepted the drive.
No further news had come from Hugo; Peter, she supposed, had sailed and was due in London at the end of the week. Then Mr. Huntly Withells asked her one afternoon to bicycle over to see his spring irises he called them "irides," and invariably spoke of "croci," and "delphinia" and as Meg was taking the children to tea at the vicarage, Jan went.
Withells' views on the subject of matrimony were "peculiar"; but all the ladies, especially the elderly ladies, were unanimous in declaring that he had a "beautiful mind." Mrs. Fream, the vicar's wife, timidly confided to Jan that Mr.
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