General Mohun lived with his sister at Rockstone, Sir Jasper, his
brother-in-law, at Clipstone, not far off, and they both recommended
Rockquay and its bay "with as much praise," said Lance, "as the
inhabitants ever give of a sea place."

"Very good, except for the visitors," said Geraldine.

"Exactly so. Over-built, over-everythinged, but still tolerable.
The General lives there with his sister, and promises to write to me
about houses, and Sir Jasper in a house a few miles off."

"He is Bernard's father-in-law?"

"Yes," said Gertrude; "and my brother Harry married a sister of Lady
Merrifield, a most delightful person as ever I saw. We tell my
father that if she were not out in New Zealand we should all begin to
be jealous, he is so enthusiastic about Phyllis."

"You have never told us how Dr. May is."

"It is not easy to persuade him that he is not as young as he was,"
said Gertrude.

"I should say he was," observed Lance.

"In heart-—that's true," said Gertrude; "but he does get tired, and
goes to sleep a good deal, but he likes to go and see his old
patients, as much as they like to have him, and Ethel is always
looking after him. It is just her life now that Cocksmoor has grown