Be wise, my dear, as I have learned a little to be since first your wife came.

All might easily have gone wrong.

It has all gone well; and we, my son, have tried to do our duty lovingly, consistently, to dear Lali and the child." She made him promise that he would wait, that he would not try to hurry his wife's affection for him by any spoken or insistent claim.

"For, Frank dear," she said, "you are only legally married, not morally, not as God can bless--not yet.

But I pray that what will sanctify all may come soon, very soon, to the joy of us all.