It may take a couple of years to stamp it all out, but at the end of that time I hope to return here for good.
"I shall find you a good deal more altered, Miss Greendale, than you will find me.

You will have become a dignified young lady.

I shall be only a little older and a little browner.

You see, I have never been stationed in India since I joined, for the regiment had only just come home, and I am looking forward with pleasurable anticipation to seeing it.

Ordinary life there in a hot cantonment must be pretty dull, though, from what I hear, people enjoy it much more than you would think possible.