Captain Connor may win through to a green old age.

I hope to God the gallant fellow will.

Your present motives are beautiful and heroic.

But do you care for him sufficiently to pass a lifetime with him--after the war--an ordinary, commonplace lifetime ?" With the same clear gaze full on me she said:-- "Didn't I tell you that I had given him my love ?" "You did." "Then," she retorted with a smile, "my dear Major Didymus, what more do you want ?" "Nothing, my dear Betty." I kissed her.

She threw her arms round my neck and kissed me again.
Sergeant Marigold entered on the sentimental scene and preserved a face of wood.