Goslings by J.D. Beresford

The news was all over the country by ten o'clock that night, and it was noticeable that a large percentage of the younger generation still regarded the danger as "rather a lark. " This threat of the plague held a promise of high adventure; youth can only realize the possibility of death in its relation to others.

"I say, if this bally old plague did come". remarked a young man of twenty-two, who was sitting with a friend in the little private bar of the "Dun Taw" Hotel.