the door looked as a page should look when the family to which he is attached is suffering from some terrible calamity.  ‘My lady’ had been summoned to the hospital to see Sir Felix who was,—­as the page reported,—­in a very bad way indeed.  The page did not exactly know what had happened, but supposed that Sir Felix had lost most of his limbs by this time.  Yes; Miss Carbury was upstairs; and would no doubt see her cousin, though she, too, was in a very bad condition; and dreadfully put about.  That poor Hetta should be ‘put about’ with her brother in the hospital and her lover in the toils of an abominable American woman was natural enough.

‘What’s this about Felix?’ asked Roger.  The new trouble always...