"Yes, if you will. That last stage of the trip was exhausting."
And so these two with all the world in their possession, in each other's company, partook of their first meal together in their own dining-room, in their own private home.
II
"'Thou hast it now,—king, Cawdor, Glamis, all——'" remarked Arnold to his wife as they made their way from the dining-room into the spacious hallway that ran through the house.
"Yet it was not foully played," replied Peggy. "The tourney was fair."
"I had thought of losing you."
"Did you but read my heart aright at our first meeting, you might have consoled yourself otherwise."
"It was the fear of my letter; the apprehension of its producing a contrary effect that furnished my misgiving. I trembled over the consent of your parents."
"Dost know, too, that my mother favored the match from the start? In truth she gave me every encouragement, perhaps awakened my soul to the flame."
"No matter. We are in the morning of our bliss; its sun is about to remain fixed. Wish for a cloudless sky."