In due course Captain Connor's regiment went off to France; not with drums beating and colours flying--I wish to Heaven it had; if there had been more pomp and circumstance in England, the popular imagination would not have remained untouched for so long a time--but in the cold silent hours of the night, like a gang of marauders.

Betty did not go to bed after he had left, but sat by the fire till morning.

Then she dressed in uniform and resumed her duties at the hospital.

Many a soldier's bride was doing much the same.

And her days went on just as they did before her marriage.