He had begun playing for the stakes from one stand-point, and he would not turn back.
He continued: "I lived with her happily: I never expect to have happiness like that again,--never,--and after two years at another post in Labrador, came word from the Company that I might go to Quebec, there to be given my choice of posts.

I went.

By this time I had again vague ideas that sometime I should come here, but how or why I couldn't tell; I was drifting, and for her sake willing to drift.

I was glad to take her to Quebec, for I guessed she would get ideas, and it didn't strike me that she would be out of place.

So we went.