I shall be a very exacting husband, Molly.

I shall want to spend all the days and hours of my life with you; to have not a fancy or a pursuit in which you cannot share, or with which you cannot sympathise.

I hope you will not grow tired of me!' 'Tired!' Then came silence, and a long farewell kiss, and then the voice of Maulevrier shouting in the hall, just in time to warn the lovers, before Miss Mueller opened the door and exclaimed, 'Oh, Mr.Hammond, we have been looking for you _everywhere_.

The luggage is all in the carriage, and Maulevrier says there is only just time to get to Windermere!' In another minute or so the carriage was driving down the hill; and Mary stood in the porch looking after the travellers.
'It seems as if it is my fate to stand here and see everybody drive away,' she said to herself.
And then she looked round at the lovely gardens, bright with spring flowers, the trees glorious with their young, fresh foliage, and the vast panorama of hill and dale, and felt that it was a wicked thing to murmur in the midst of such a world.

And she remembered the great unhoped-for bliss that had come to her within the last four days, and the cloud upon her brow vanished, as she clasped her hands in child-like joyousness.
'God bless you, dear old Helvellyn,' she exclaimed, looking up at the sombre crest of the mountain.