[Three short raps upon the window pane]
[A flag of truce, honored alike by the Confederacy and the Union]
[Young Stanchfield struggled to sit up]
[“Dorothea met a Union officer in Coulter Woods”]
GIRLS OF ’64
CHAPTER I
NEWS FROM THE NORTH
Corinne twisted and turned before the mirror over the console table, flicked a speck of powder from her sacque and stood back to regard herself appreciatively. She felt her toilette to be extremely distinguished when war deprivations were taken into account.
“I’m ready,” she drawled, addressing her cousin. “If we-all don’t want to be late we might as well start. It’s ’most train-time.”