Three months after the affair the regiment was ordered down to Allahabad, and the change of place no doubt helped to erase all memory of the dream.

Four years after we had left Jubbalpore we went to Beerapore.

The time is very marked in my memory, because, the very week we arrived there, your aunt, then Miss Gardiner, came out from England, to her father, our colonel.

The instant I saw her I was impressed with the idea that I knew her intimately.

I recollected her face, her figure, and the very tone of her voice, but wherever I had met her I could not conceive.