Immediately after dinner they were served with excellent coffee and tea. Then the General ordered the carriage for their return home. After another pleasant ride through the forest, they reached Old Lyon Hall at sunset. “We have had a delightful day at your other house, Dick,” said the General, heartily. “_Our_ other home, sir, if you please; for if Anna and myself are to be at home at Old Lyon Hall during one period of the year, you and Drusilla must be at home at Hammond House during another part,” said Dick. “And when you wish to spend a winter in Washington you must all be at home with me at Cedarwood,” added Drusilla. “Agreed! agreed!” said General Lyon, Anna and Dick in a breath. After tea that evening they were pleasantly surprised by a visit from the Seymours. It seems the old gentleman had got news of Anna’s arrival and had come over with his wife and daughter, ostensibly to welcome home the bride and bridegroom; but really too glad of a good excuse to hear Drusilla sing and play. They spent a long evening; and Drusilla gratified her old admirer with some very choice music, in which she was ably assisted by Anna and Dick—Anna singing second and Dick bass. Early in the next week Mr. and Mrs. Hammond issued cards for a reception on the following Monday. And when the appointed day came they received their “dear five hundred friends” and had a crowded house with the coming and going of visitors from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon. And this reception was the signal for a round of entertainments given to the newly married pair. The first of a series was a ball at Colonel Seymour’s, which was duly honored by all the family from Old Lyon Hall, including Drusilla, of course. Then there was an evening party with music, but not dancing, at the Reverend Dr. Barber’s. Even the struggling medical practitioner at Saulsburg gave a tea-drinking. And these neighborhood festivities in honor of the bride were kept up in good old-fashioned country style for a month or six weeks. On the first of July, Hammond House being quite ready for occupation, the whole family from Old Lyon Hall went there to spend a few weeks, that the General might indulge in his favorite pastime of trout-fishing. Here they remained until the first of September, when the near neighborhood of fresh water streams being considered unwholesome, they returned to Old Lyon Hall. “And now,” said Drusilla, when they were once more settled, “now it is my turn. Our next migration must be to Cedarwood.” “Are you so anxious to leave the sweet old home?” inquired General Lyon, a little reproachfully. “Oh, no indeed. Only when we do go, we must go to Cedarwood.” “Agreed,” said the General, “we will go there next winter.” And so the matter was settled; for though all his young people were grown up and married, yet the word of the veteran soldier was law in the family circle.