Miles left to join the others at the front as he had said and the women returned sadly to their homes. Olive would visit Bernard every day and slowly he began to recover.
The other women were left to worry and wait for news. Every few days or so a wagon would arrive at Briarwood with more injured men. Cora was always there to greet them so Delaney, Selina, Constance, and many of their other friends would wait for her to bring them any news she could gather.
As men that were well enough and willing loaded into the wagon to go back to the front, they were begged to send word as soon as they could. Nothing came of it though. No real news came to them.
Every day Delaney didn't receive word of Vincent was another day of worrying what her future held. On the morning of her eighteenth birthday, she woke without the excitement she had always expected she would have on this day.
