I'm very happy.' And then I thought, though it all seemed so desperately dismal at the time, Katharine had said she was happy, and I should have a son, and it would all turn out so much more wonderfully than I could possibly imagine, for though the sermons don't say so, I do believe the world is meant for us to be happy in.

She told me that they would live quite near us, and see us every day; and she would go on with the Life, and we should finish it as we had meant to.

And, after all, it would be far more horrid if she didn't marry--or suppose she married some one we couldn't endure?
Suppose she had fallen in love with some one who was married already?
"And though one never thinks any one good enough for the people one's fond of, he has the kindest, truest instincts, I'm sure, and though he seems nervous and his manner is not commanding, I only think these things because it's Katharine.

And now I've written this, it comes over me that, of course, all the time, Katharine has what he hasn't.

She does command, she isn't nervous; it comes naturally to her to rule and control.