You know that you are his wife, and you know that he loves you.

Surely that is enough ?" I had but one answer to this.

Life, on such conditions as my good friend had just stated, would be simply unendurable to me.

Nothing could alter my resolution--for this plain reason, that nothing could reconcile me to living with my husband on the terms on which we were living now.

It only rested with Benjamin to say whether he would give a helping hand to his master's daughter or not.
The old man's answer was thoroughly characteristic of him.
"Mention what you want of me, my dear," was all he said.
We were then passing a street in the neighborhood of Portman Square.