If they have not held you--if for any reason your heart has changed--you will not fail to tell me, will you?
Is it necessary that you should be great and wise and rich and learned before you come to me?
Little by little, after many talks with the venerable Franklin, I have got the American notion that I would like to go away with you and help you to accomplish these things and enjoy the happiness which was ours, for a little time, and of which you speak in your letters.

Surely there was something very great in those moments.
It does not fade and has it not kept us true to their promise?
But, Jack, how long am I to wait?
You must tell me." This letter went to the heart of the young man.

She had deftly set before him the gross unfairness of delay.

He felt it.

Ever since the parting he had been eager to go, but his father was not a rich man and the family was large.