I thought her very much better where she was.
Then came the period which is filled, in a subordinate degree, with Cecily's letters.

I do not wish to claim more than I ought; they were not my only or even my principal interest in life.

It was a long period; it lasted till she was twenty-one.

John had had promotion in the meantime, and there was rather more money, but he had earned his second brevet with a bullet through one lung, and the doctors ordered our leave to be spent in South Africa.

We had photographs, we knew she had grown tall and athletic and comely, and the letters were always very creditable.