He is three years senior to me in the regiment.

He was appointed to it a month or two after the Colonel joined.

Well, as I say, a month or two after I came to it, he went away on leave down to Calcutta, where he was to meet a young lady who had been engaged to him before he left home.

They were married, and he brought her up country.

Before she had been with us a month we had one of those outbreaks of cholera.