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Ethel was more than ever with Miss Evans in these times, and these two got more and more attached to one another. Ethel, watching her friend, saw that she was more and more distraught and anxious as time went on.
"I am going to have Eddy home," she said one morning, abruptly. "He must do something for himself, for goodness knows how many I may have on my hands soon; and the army is not so expensive as Oxford, and so he had better be seen after. Ho! I suppose you know that Roland has got his commission, and passed his examination easily."