Not that I have seen all I would fain have seen.

Many a time, especially this last year, when I have seen the mother in you crooning to some neighbour's child, I have thought to myself, 'I don't know my Grizel yet; I have seen her in the bud only,' and I would fain--" He broke off.

"But I have no fears," he said.

"As I lie here, with you sitting by my side, looking so serene, I can say, for the first time for half a century, that I have nothing on my mind.
"But, Grizel, I should have married," he told her.

"The chief lesson my life has taught me is that they are poor critturs--the men who don't marry." "If you had married," she said, "you might never have been able to help me." "It is you who have helped me," he replied.