I'm getting on now to middle life.

I don't want romances and adventures--I want an easy existence with a nice lovable woman who will make me a good wife.

You're the woman, I tell you again.

I know it by what I've seen of you myself, and by what I have heard of you from Lady Lydiard.

She said you were prudent, and sweet-tempered, and affectionate; to which I wish to add that you have just the face and figure that I like, and the modest manners and the blessed absence of all slang in your talk, which I don't find in the young women I meet with in the present day.