"You know I will gladly be your wife." I will not write of what happened then.

It is not for the eyes of the world to see.

Tears come into my eyes now as I remember how her new-found happiness lit up her eyes with joy, and how the colour came into her beautiful cheeks.

God alone knows how happy we were.

We had been kept asunder by a cruel hand, and had been brought together again by long and bitter struggles, struggles which would never have been but for the love of God and the love in our hearts.