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reason why Felix Nawn found himself, to his delight, conveying Sheilah home from so many evening engagements during the second winter of the war, was because there were fewer other men to perform the service. The girls in Wallbridge felt the dearth of young men at their parties almost as soon as war was declared. Nevin Baldwin had set the pace.

Dressed in an English uniform, Nevin was fighting in France before the first Christmas, and imbued with Nevin Baldwin's example, a dozen or more young men in Wallbridge managed somehow to get onto the other side that first winter. Of course there were still many young men left, but none Sheilah could impose upon as upon Felix. It really wasn't imposing upon Felix. It was bestowing.

Sheilah was aware of the unabated intensity of Felix's devotion, but she believed she had become acclimatized to it now, as one does after a while to a tropical climate, and knew how to adapt herself to it. How unwise it was, for instance, ever to allow the direct rays of the heat to touch her. And what methods to employ to protect herself against ex-