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That was common By nature, and due to his position, everyone at the fort was alatchful for his co to do with arh escaped, one he hadn’t known had built in his chest He didn’t knohat his next move would be, either

That was an oddity For the first ti time, he was at a loss

“Major?” A hand planted itself on the half-closed door

“Briggs,” he said, in answer to the ain

“I see your wife,” the Swede said in his deep and gruff voice “I bring food Here to your cabin, she eat after cleaning up No?”

It didn’t matter what the ht now, it fit “No, Briggs If she’s hungry she can eat at the hall like everyone else”

“But Major, a woman—”

“She et used to it”

The startled look on the cook’s facewith his men, because of mutual respect, but the way he’d just snapped at the Swede, said he didn’t like it Seth squared his shoulders, let his stance confireant?”

“No, Major Sir”

The man spun around, and this time Seth all but slammed the door Exactly what he’d always suspected A ould interfere with his duties

A reflection of the dented brass tub caught in the h, but she’d never enjoyed a bath asthe coth and pinned the it would take an hour, and curling it even longer, and she didn’t have that kind of time Besides, just as she’d suspected, curled hair would not convince Seth she was Rosemary

Satisfied the coain brown and not dust gray, Millie tidied up the area before opening her bag to stuff her boots on top of the traveling suit that would never be pale green again It had been new at the beginning of her journey, and clothes usually lasted her years Atoward the ain