Is it not so ?" The answer came in a sob of mingled anguish and happiness: "Yes, Philip, but it was only for your sake I wanted you to leave this work.

It is killing you.

Yet,"-- and she lifted her head with a smile through all the tears--"yet, Philip, 'whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.

Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and me.'" There were people in Milton who could not undersatnd[sic] how a person of such refined and even naturally expensive and luxurious habits as the minister's wife possessed could endure the life he had planned for himself, and his idea of Christian living in general.

Philip could have told them if he had been so minded.