The things we do!

Kew's wound and subsequent illness have altered him a good
deal. He has become much more serious than he used to be; not ludicrously
so at all, but he says he thinks his past life has been useless and even
criminal, and he wishes to change it. He has sold his horses, and sown
his wild oats. He has turned quite a sober quiet gentleman.
"At our meeting he told me of what had happened between him and Ethel, of
whom he spoke most kindly and generously, but avowing his opinion that
they never could have been happy in married life. And now I think my dear
old father will see that there may be another reason besides my desire to
see Mr. Binnie, which has brought me tumbling back to England again. If
need be to speak, I never shall have, I hope, any secrets from you. I
have not said much about one which has given me the deuce's disquiet for
ten months past, because there was no good in talking about it, or vexing
you needlessly with reports of my griefs and woes.
"Well, when we were at Baden in September last, and E.


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