It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently for not writing a sequel about the way in which England was treating its old soldiers.
It describes a meeting between the last twenty survivors of the charge and Tennyson, who was eighty years old at the time, where they gently expressed their disappointment that he had not written a sequel about how England was treating its aging veterans.