"She has promised to be your wife, and you know that she loves you; that ought to be enough to give you patience to wait.

Why, Paul, you loved her all your life up to the last month without even seeing her, and did not think the time long." "You forget," he replied, "that it is seeing her which makes it so hard to wait." A day or two later, when she chanced to be sitting alone with her in the afternoon, Miss Ludington said: "When are you and Paul to be married ?" "It is not decided yet," Ida replied, falteringly.
"Has not Paul spoken to you about it ?" "Oh, yes!" "I had hoped that you would have been married before this," said Miss Ludington, after a pause.

"You know why I am so anxious that there should be no delay in assuring your position.

The time is short I know, but the reasons against postponement are strong, and if you love him I cannot see why you should hesitate.

Perhaps you are not quite sure that you do love him.