He kissed her again, eyes and mouth and hands, and left her.
Tant Sannie was well satisfied when told of the betrothment.

She herself contemplated marriage within the year with one or other of her numerous vrijers, and she suggested that the weddings might take place together.
Em set to work busily to prepare her own household linen and wedding garments.

Gregory was with her daily, almost hourly, and the six months which elapsed before Lyndall's return passed, as he felicitously phrased it, "like a summer night, when you are dreaming of some one you love." Late one evening, Gregory sat by his little love, turning the handle of her machine as she drew her work through it, and they talked of the changes they would make when the Boer-woman was gone, and the farm belonged to them alone.

There should be a new room here, and a kraal there.

So they chatted on.