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Updated: June 9, 2025
The officious chowkidar unearthed two punkah coolies for the occasion: and the planning of their future home, a picnic tea served on Eldred's writing-table, and practical considerations in respect of furniture and house linen though Quita had small inherent regard for either! helped, more or less, to obscure the thought of separation.
The two girls on the train had settled themselves cosily with the aid of a porter rendered over-zealous by Mr. Eldred's generosity, and were watching the flying scenery and the other passengers with interest. Frieda was not eager to arrive at her journey's end. She already missed Karl and the friendly Eldreds, who had seemed nearer her own parents than any one else in this strange country could.
But Quita was still at that enviable stage in love's progress when times and seasons and places shrink to mere pin-points beside the one supreme fact. A Frontier hot weather in Eldred's company held no terrors for her.
The two heads had not touched as yet. In all probability they never would. But prophecy is unsafe where the human heart is in question: and as the month slipped by, and Eldred's reabsorption in the Battery and the hated articles left them constantly alone together, Quita grew genuinely fond of this big, fair man, with his unruffled sweetness of temper, and lazily smiling eyes.
The four Battery subalterns, headed by Richardson, surrendered at discretion. And there were others also; notably George Rivers, Desmond's subaltern, a promising Lothario with a profile, a tenor voice, and an unimpeachable taste in ties and waistcoats. But Quita gave the preference to Eldred's brother officers; and to their open delight made them free of the house.
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