Don't worry; keep on lovin' her, ye'll never have cause to repent it." That same night Martha wrote to Jane, giving her every detail of the interview, and in due course of time handed the doctor a letter in which Jane wrote: "He MUST NOT stop writing to me; his letters are all the comfort I have"-- a line not intended for the doctor's eyes, but which the good soul could not keep from him, so eager was she to relieve his pain.
Jane's letter to him in answer to his own expressing his unhappiness over her neglect was less direct, but none the less comforting to him.
"I am constantly moving about," the letter ran, "and have much to do and cannot always answer your letters, so please do not expect them too often.

But I am always thinking of you and your kindness to dear Martha.

You do for me when you do for her." After this it became a settled habit between them, he writing by the weekly steamer, telling her every thought of his life, and she replying at long intervals.

In these no word of love was spoken on her side; nor was any reference made to their last interview.

But this fact did not cool the warmth of his affection nor weaken his faith.