Already she felt to know a great deal about war in general and sieges in particular.

She often experienced a thrill of pride and delight in the thought that she herself was about to be a witness of a siege of which all the world would be talking.
As she stood at the window today, a footstep rang through the quiet house below, and suddenly the door of the little chamber was flung wide open.
"Corinne!" cried a ringing voice which she well knew.
She turned round with a little cry of joy.
"Colin!" she cried, and the next minute brother and sister were locked in a fervent embrace.
"O Colin, Colin, when did you come, and whence ?" "Just this last hour, and from Montreal," he answered.

"Oh, what strange adventures I have seen since last we met! Corinne, there have been times when I thought never to see you again! I have so much to say I know not where to begin.

I have seen our triumphs, and I have seen our defeat.

Corinne, it is as our uncle said.