He is coming home by-and-by.

His wedding day is fixed for April -- --, and he will visit us before that time, to see about our preparations for receiving 'Lina.

We somehow expected a letter to-day.

Did you get one ?" "Yes, one for your mother--from the doctor, I think," Adah replied, without telling how faint the sight of the handwriting had made her, it was so like George's--not exactly like his, either, but enough so to make her heart beat painfully as she recalled the only letter she ever received from him, the fatal note which broke her heart.
"It is so very long since I had a letter all to myself, that I wonder how it would seem," Anna rejoined.

"I have not had one since--since--" "The day I came there was one for you," said Adah, while Anna looked wonderingly at her, saying, "You are mistaken, I'm sure.