The amount would at this day relieve all my embarrassments; yet, if I go, I leave nothing behind, for my property is gone, and my family is unprovided for." "Secure the eight hundred pounds and provide for them." With this advices in mind, he went home, and that same evening Hugh Price, the young royalist, who lived with Sir William Berkeley at Greenspring, called to see him, and once more the voyage to London was discussed.
"By all means, go," Hugh advised.

"It is your duty to go." Mrs.Stevens was consulted and thought she should go also; she saw no reason in his taking a pleasure voyage and leaving his wife at home; but this was out of the question, for the baby was too young to endure the voyage; besides, the cost of taking her would more than double the expense.

Then Mrs.Stevens, who thought only of a pleasant time, wanted to know why she could not be sent in his stead.

He explained that it was a matter of business which a woman could not perform; but Mrs.Stevens became unreasonable, declaring: "You wish to go to London and pass your time in gay society." "I do not," he answered.
"Verily, you do.

You tire already of your wife; you would seek another." "Dorothe, I would wed no other woman living," answered John, with a sigh.
"They all say that; yet no sooner is the wife laid in the grave than they are anxious to find one younger and more fair." "Women do the same," John ventured to urge in defence of his sex.
"Not so often as the men." Then Mrs.Stevens began a harangue on the evils of second marriages and wound up by declaring they were compacts of the devil.