A Letter From a Young Girl

After the armistice, he tried frantically to get home, but some complication or misunderstanding sent him to oxford instead. Now there was a quality of nervous despair in daisy's letters. She didn't see why he come. But something within her was crying for a decision. And the decision must be made by some force of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality that was close at hand. That force took shape in the middle of spring with the arrival of tom cannon.