"Yes, she is a great favourite, and everybody is eager to see her before she goes."
"You are going away soon?"
"O yes!—to my post."
"I hope she will make you happy, Evan," Diana said gently and cordially.
"You are very good, I am sure. I don't want you to think, Diana, that
I—that I, in fact, have forgotten anything"—
"You cannot forget too soon," she answered, smiling, "everything that
Clara would not wish you to remember."
"A fellow is so awfully lonely out there on the frontiers"—he said, mumbling his words through his moustache in a peculiar way.
"You will not be lonely now, I hope."
"You see, Di, you were lost to me. If I could only think of you as happy"—
"You may."