the other party thinks we ought to be content with
letting the fleet help the French. I must say I agree
with the Blue Water school."

"I don't," said Rose rather decidedly. "If we
really owe so much to Belgium that we have gone to
war for her sake, then it seems to me we ought to send
soldiers to help her."

"But then we have such a small army," objected
Mrs. Otway.

"It may grow bigger," observed her daughter
quietly, "especially if people like Jervis Blake think
of enlisting."

"But it wasn't Jervis Blake, darling child -- it was
Miss Forsyth who said that to me."

"So it was! How stupid I am!" Rose turned a
little pink. She did not wish to deceive her mother.
But Mrs. Otway was so confiding, so sure that every
one was as honourable as herself, that she could not
always be trusted to keep secrets.

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