1 We are to be married in an hour, or as soon after as Jonathan awakes.
2 Mr. Hawkins says it would not be a bad thing if we were to be married out there.
3 I suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him.
4 Lucy is to be married in the autumn, and she is already planning out her dresses and how her house is to be arranged.
5 And, besides, she is young woman and not so long married; there may be other things to think of some time, if not now.
6 Arthur was saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married and that she was his wife in the sight of God.
7 I want you to see now, and with the eyes of a very happy wife, whither duty has led me; so that in your own married life you too may be all happy as I am.
8 When we are married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he wants to say in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, at which also I am practising very hard.
9 It seems only yesterday that the last entry was made, and yet how much between then, in Whitby and all the world before me, Jonathan away and no news of him; and now, married to Jonathan, Jonathan a solicitor, a partner, rich, master of his business, Mr. Hawkins dead and buried, and Jonathan with another attack that may harm him.