We know 'em--don't we, old Queen ?" Queen wagged concurrence, and Katie pulled herself sternly back to her letters.
Mrs.Prescott spoke of the chance of her son's being ordered away.

"I hope not," she wrote, "for I want the quiet summer for him.

And for myself, too.

The great trees and the river, and you there, dear Katie, it seems the thing I most desire.

But we of the army learn often to relinquish the things we most desire.