The Daughter of the Commandant Chapter 5 - Love

In which a young officer, after recovering from a duel wound under the caring watch of Marya Ivánofna and the Commandant’s family, dares to declare his love and seek parental approval for marriage, only to be met with a stern and forbidding letter from his father. The weight of disappointed hopes and growing melancholy sets in, shadowing his once buoyant spirit and altering the course of his days at the fort.