“Thanks to you. You have been a wonderful help to her. You took her into a new world.”
“That is what I tried to do. She was ready for it. And to think our little country dressmaker will be the wife of the Summer Avenue minister.”
“Oh, she’ll take to it. It is in her.”
“Yes; she has tact.”
“And natural ability.”
“That is only—how many sensations?”
“You saw that one letter was from Don. He is coming home next month. Really, this time.”
“His wife has been dead—”
“A year. Their married life was very short. All the happier because it was short. She has become a blessed memory to him. She was very sweet in the last month of her life. He loved her then as he had never loved her before. She told him that she did not love him when she married him; that she married him to get away from her uncle’s home. That last month was the one sweet drop in his bitter cup.”
“Roger, you knew his story all the time.”