16/19 Don't ask me why I love him so. I couldn't explain it to you to save my life, but I will say that since the day we were married--I ran away to marry him--he has never spoken an unkind word to me. He had nothing to give me except his love, but he has given me that. Whatever his faults may be as a soldier, he has been a good husband to me." "A good husband!" Broussard involuntarily repeated the words, marvelling and admiring the constancy, the self-delusion, the blind devotion of the woman before him. |