“Surely not—I should have been loath to have you think, while your business was so prosperous, and you seemed so well satisfied here, that I had any discontent.”
“I satisfied!” I said this rather to myself than her.
“Yes, were you not? I had no reason to think otherwise. Nay, I feared you were too well satisfied, for I have seen so little of you of late. I'm sure I wished we were anywhere, so that you could find your home more to your liking.”
“And have such notions really filled your brain Julia?”
“Really.”
“And you have found me a stranger—you have missed me?”
“Ah! do you not know it, Edward?”
“You shall have no need to reproach me hereafter. We will go to Alabama, and live wholly for one another. I shall leave you in business time only, and hurry back as soon as I can.”
“Ah, promise me that?”
“I do!”