She is engaged to Joe Milgrave and Joe joined up in October and has been training in Charlottetown ever since.

Her father was furious when he joined and forbade Miranda ever to have any dealing or communication with him again.

Poor Joe expects to go overseas any day and wants Miranda to marry him before he goes, which shows that there have been 'communications' in spite of Whiskers-on-the-moon.

Miranda wants to marry him but cannot, and she declares it will break her heart.
"'Why don't you run away and marry him ?' I said.

It didn't go against my conscience in the least to give her such advice.