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They had known Robert and Julia for some years , but Josephine and Jim were new acquaintances , -- fairly new . One day in early spring Lilly had a telegram , `` Coming to see you arrive 4:30 -- Bricknell . '' He was surprised , but he and his wife got the spare room ready . And at four o'clock Lilly went off to the station . He was a few minutes late , and saw Jim 's tall , rather elegant figure stalking down the station path . Jim had been an officer in the regular army , and still spent hours with his tailor . But instead of being a soldier he was a sort of socialist , and a red-hot revolutionary of a very ineffectual sort .