When the sounds in the next room ceased, and he knew that she must be lying still, waiting for him, he sat down, took pen and paper, and began to write to her--a letter to be given to her if he fell.

He had already written a letter of business directions, which was at his lawyer's.

This was of another kind.
'My Darling,--this will be very short.

It is only to tell you that if I fall--if we never meet again, after to-morrow, you are to think first of all--and always--that you have made a man so happy that if no more joy can come to him on earth, he could die now--as far as he himself is concerned--blessing God for his life.

I never imagined that love could be so perfect.