"There was quite a number of us; it was a 'bus ride one May afternoon.
We came out to gather wild flowers." "If I had the right," flamed up within the cadet, "I'd soon make Mr.Cameron my business, or else I'd be some of his.

But it wouldn't be fair.

I'm not through West Point yet, and I may never be.
Until my future is fairly assured I'm not going to ask the sweetest girl on earth to commit her future to my hands.

Even if I felt that I could, a cadet is forbidden to marry and a two years' engagement is a fearfully long one to ask of a girl.

And a girl like Laura has a chance to meet hundreds of more satisfactory fellows than I in two years." It required all the young soldier's will power to keep silent on the one subject uppermost in his mind.