CHAPTER VI.
"For 'tis a chronicle of day by day." _The Tempest_.
About this time Jean wrote a letter to David at Oxford.

It is wonderful how much news there is when people write every other day; if they wait for a month there is nothing that seems worth telling.
Jean wrote: " ...

You have been away now for four days, and we still miss you badly.
Nobody sits in your place at the table, and it gives us such a horrid bereaved feeling when we look at it.

Mhor was waiting at the gate for the post yesterday and brought your letter in in triumph.

He was particularly interested in hearing about your scout, and has added his name to the list he prays for.