This is a farewell scene at the garden gate of country house between a captain and a young lady. A captain in full military dress stands beside his horse in the lane in front of the wood-slat garden gate of his beloved; he blows her a kiss with his right hand whilst standing against the near-side shoulder of his mount. The horse is disinterested in this encounter and instead stares down the lane after a grey horse ridden by another soldier as they approach a bend that will take them out of sight. The girl is on the other side of the gate, being led away by a woman wearing a mob-cap and a man in a wig; the girl, also in a mob-cap, turns her head to catch a last glimpse of the captain as she approaches the timber-framed house partially visible beyond the garden, against a backdrop of trees.