Publisher's Synopsis
Gad! If this same Miranda had only been a boy, his boy, there would have been another soldier to carry on the family traditions, if you like! But this poor Bertram of his . . . His mother, a Girton girl, and daughter of a Cambridge Don, had prayed that her child might -take after- her father, for whom she entertained a feeling of absolute veneration. She had had her wish indeed-without living to rejoice in the fact.
