He was not jealous of Lucy's affection, for he knew that she loved him as tenderly as ever.

He was too glad to know that she was happy with a husband to whom she was as the apple of his eye.

In about three months Lucy made another visit "home." But husband and child were along, this time, and the visit proved a happy one all around.

Of course, "father and mother" had their jest and their laugh, and their affectation of jealousy and anger at Lucy for her "childishness," as they termed it, when home in May; but Lucy, though half-vexed at herself for what she called a weakness, nevertheless persevered in saying that she never meant to go anywhere again without Henry.

"That was settled.".