Not wishing to give any more news until I see you at home, dear Guy, and having nothing further to add but our love, I remain your expectant Fanny.
Fanny Trevelyan's letter had a double effect upon the mind of the recipient.

It involved both happiness and despondent gloom, and unconsciously had struck a tender chord which vibrated with redoubled sadness in its deep sympathy.
Why do the waking echoes of the past take cruel delight in presenting to the mind visions which otherwise would be laid aside in a retired recess or a secret chamber sacred to the relics of other days and other scenes?
Why are those realities to present themselves in merciless and mocking array to gloat upon our sufferings with fiendish delight?
These are questions only to be answered when the causes which call them forth have ceased to exist.
Captain Trevelyan's retirement was the subject of much concern for the officers and men.

Many discussions arose as to the motive.

Lieutenant Creagh remonstrated, but to no purpose.

As the slow sailing ship bore the gallant regiment across the Atlantic, hope reigned supreme in many hearts.