"And now," she said, "telegraph Mr.Fulkerson, and we will go at once." "I suppose I could still get Watkins's former place," March suggested.
"Never!" she retorted.

"Telegraph instantly!" They were only afraid now that Fulkerson might have changed his mind, and they had a wretched day in which they heard nothing from him.

It ended with his answering March's telegram in person.

They were so glad of his coming, and so touched by his satisfaction with his bargain, that they laid all the facts of the case before him.

He entered fully into March's sense of the joke latent in Mr.Hubbell's proposition, and he tried to make Mrs.March believe that he shared her resentment of the indignity offered her husband.
March made a show of willingness to release him in view of the changed situation, saying that he held him to nothing.