What good is there in waiting?
You're not any happier, are you ?" "Happier!" she exclaimed softly, "you know better than that." "Here we are then," he went on in the same tone, "wasting our days.

If you are not happy, do you think I am?
I sit and write to you the biggest part of the time.

I'll tell you what, Carrie," he exclaimed, throwing sudden force of expression into his voice and fixing her with his eyes, "I can't live without you, and that's all there is to it.

Now," he concluded, showing the palm of one of his white hands in a sort of at-an-end, helpless expression, "what shall I do ?" This shifting of the burden to her appealed to Carrie.

The semblance of the load without the weight touched the woman's heart.
"Can't you wait a little while yet ?" she said tenderly.