"Now, may I
answer some of those letters for you?"
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For some weeks after this Diana went backward and forward daily, or
almost daily, between Beechcote and Tallyn. Then she migrated to Tallyn
altogether, and Muriel Colwood with her. Before and after that migration
wisdom had been justified of her children in the person of the doctor.
Hugh Roughsedge's leave had been prolonged, owing to a slight but
troublesome wound in the arm, of which he had made nothing on coming
home. No wound could have been more opportune--more friendly to the
doctor's craving for a daughter-in-law. It kept the Captain at
Beechcote, but it did not prevent him from coming over every Sunday to
Tallyn to bring flowers or letters, or news from the village; and it was
positively benefited by such mild exercise as a man may take, in company
with a little round-eyed woman, feather-light and active, yet in
relation to Diana, like a tethered dove, that can only take short
flights. Only here it was a tether self-imposed and of the heart.
There was no direct wooing, however, and for weeks their talk was all of
Diana. Then the Captain's arm got well, and Nigeria called.
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