And at times she felt very lonely.

With memories of weddings at home and of her dreams for one of her own, which she had planned so often, she begged Joe to let her be married in church, and Joe gave in good-naturedly.

He did not go to the minister who had buried Amy a year before, but to one who had a small Presbyterian church on the next street.

There he soon arranged to be married.

But then, in his ignorance of such matters, Joe said, in his blunt, off-hand way: "I like to settle these things ahead.