Ah, why do you not know Lilian? she deserves that you should know her.
I have told her a great deal about you; she thinks she should stand in awe of any one so wise and learned, but I tell her she need not.
And oh, Dr. Fritz is such a noble man. He told me that he was a pupil of your husband, and it must make you happy that your husband's spirit lives on in such a man, here in the New World.
I must try not to think too much of you and of the past: I ought now to give my thoughts only to what we have before us; and I am tired out. I have had a very fatiguing drill.
Eric is held in great respect here. All is still; in camp it is said that to-morrow we shall come under fire for the first time.
Morning.
The battle is beginning; I hope to do my duty.
Evening.
I have been promoted on the field.
[Eric to Weidmann.]