He tells me I might as well send him away to die at once, unless I went with him as his wife.

So I go.
"I hope he will come home quite strong and well, and able to begin building our cottage on that wee bit of ground on the hill-side above Cairnforth which you have promised to give to him.

I am inexpressibly happy about it.

We shall all live so cheerily together--and meet every day--the Castle, the Manse, and the Cottage.

When I think of that, and of my coming back, I am almost comforted for this sad going away--leaving my dear father, and the boys, and you.
"Papa has been so good to me, you do not know.