For there are some things which are impossible and leaving Desire here was one of them.
I call her "Desire" to you because it is what you will be calling her soon.

Strange, how that small fact seems to place her' Fancy my marrying someone whom you would naturally call "Mrs.Spence"?
There are such people.

All Aunt Caroline's young friends are like that.

You would say, "I have looked forward to meeting you, Mrs.Spence," and she would giggle and say, "Oh, Dr.Rogers, I have heard my husband speak of you so often!" But Desire will say, "So this is John." And then she will look at you with that detached yet interested look and you will find yourself saying "Desire" before you think of it.

You see, she belongs.
But before I bring you up to date with regard to recent events, I had better tell you a few facts about my more remote past.