"We
are Fighting the World," he said, finding great satisfaction in the
thought. "All the world is against us--and we are fighting it all."
"We will not be beaten," said Ethel.
"How could we be beaten--together?" said Lewisham. "For you I would
fight a dozen worlds."
It seemed a very sweet and noble thing to them under the sympathetic
moonlight, almost indeed too easy for their courage, to be merely
fighting the world.
* * * * *
"You 'aven't bin married ver' long," said Madam Gadow with an
insinuating smile, when she readmitted Ethel on Monday morning after
Lewisham had been swallowed up by the Schools.
"No, I haven't _very_ long," admitted Ethel.
"You are ver' 'appy," said Madam Gadow, and sighed.
"_I_ was ver' 'appy," said Madam Gadow.
CHAPTER XXIII.
MR. CHAFFERY AT HOME.
The golden mists of delight lifted a little on Monday, when Mr. and
Mrs. G.E. Lewisham went to call on his mother-in-law and
Mr. Chaffery. Mrs. Lewisham went in evident apprehension, but clouds
of glory still hung about Lewisham's head, and his manner was heroic.
He wore a cotton shirt and linen collar, and a very nice black satin
tie that Mrs. Lewisham had bought on her own responsibility during the
day.
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