Dorothy Dale's Engagement by Margaret Penrose

The major was ready to see Garry Knapp at nine o'clock the next morning. He was suffering one of his engagements with the enemy rheumatism, and there really was a strong reason for his having put off this interview until the shy Westerner had become somewhat settled at The Cedars as a guest.

Dorothy took Garry up to the major's room after breakfast, and they found him well-wrapped in a rug, sitting in his sun parlor which overlooked the lawns of The Cedars.