That she returned his love he would not and could not doubt.

And something she said to him one day, early in their honeymoon, filled up the measure of his bliss.
'What a change you have made in my life, Edmund! How much I have to thank you for!' That was what he had hoped to hear.

He had thought it himself; had wondered whether Monica saw her position in this light.

And when the words actually fell from her lips he glowed with joy.

This, to his mind, was the perfect relation of wife to husband.