man's sudden arrival; but it had occurred to him to explain that he had felt himself on the verge of a nasty cold, and this seemed to Mr. Welland an all-sufficient reason for abandoning any duty.
\"You can't be too careful, especially toward spring,\" he said, heaping his plate with straw-coloured griddle-cakes and drowning them in golden syrup. \"If I'd only been as prudent at your age May would have been dancing at the Assemblies now,
man's sudden arrival; but it had occurred to him to explain that he had felt himself on the verge of a nasty cold, and this seemed to Mr. Welland an all-sufficient reason for abandoning any duty.
\"You can't be too careful, especially toward spring,\" he said, heaping his plate with straw-coloured griddle-cakes and drowning them in golden syrup. \"If I'd only been as prudent at your age May would have been dancing at the Assemblies now,
