These are your principal officers; and we had better go and see your mother and Florry now." "I have good news for you and your family, Captain Passford, for I am informed that I have been exchanged, and need trespass no longer upon your generous and kindly hospitality," said the commander.
"That is no news to me, Captain Rombold, for I had the pleasure of suggesting the officers for whom you and the doctor might be exchanged," replied the host with a pleasant laugh.

"But I assure you in all sincerity that you have both of you been the farthest possible from trespassers." "I do not feel that I have yet half reciprocated the kindness you extended to my son," added Mrs.Passford.
"I wish I could do ten times as much for you as I have been able to do," said Florry.
"Though wounded I have passed four of the pleasantest weeks of my life here; and I shall never forget your kindness to me," said the commander, grasping the hand of his host; and his example was followed by the surgeon.
"We have been made happier by your presence with us than we could have made you, gentlemen," added Mrs.Passford.
Not a word about politics or the cause of the war had been spoken..