"Preparing a place FOR ME! You have prepared a place for me and I have taken it. My place is with you."
"Gabriella, do you know I have not a dollar in the world?"
"I have!"
"But—"
"Ah, don't! don't! That would be the first time you had ever wounded me!"
"How can I—"
"How can you go away and leave me here—here—anywhere—alone—struggling in the world alone? And you somewhere else alone? Lose those years of being together? Can you even bear the thought of it? Ah, I did not think this!"
"It was only because—"
"But it shall never be! I will not be separated from you!"
David remembered a middle-aged man at the University, working his way through college with his wife beside him. His heart melted in joy and tenderness—before the possibility of life with her so near. He could not speak.