I remember all this so particular because it was the only time I'd felt like it for years, and I never had the same feeling afterwards--nor likely to.
'Oh! what a happy day I've had,' Aileen said, on a sudden.

Jim and I and her had been riding a long spell without speaking.

'I don't know when I've enjoyed myself so much; I've got quite out of the way of being happy lately, and hardly know the taste of it.

How lovely it would be if you and Jim could always stay at home like this, and we could do our work happy and comfortable together, without separating, and all this deadly fear of something terrible happening, that's never out of my mind.

Oh! Dick, won't you promise me to stop quiet and work steady at home, if you--if you and Jim haven't anything brought against you ?' She bent forward and looked into my face as she said this.