You ought to be especially interested, my love,
in this marriage, for you are the cause of it. If I had not gone to
Aldborough to search for the lost trace of you--if George had not
been brought there at the same time by circumstances in which you were
concerned, my husband and I might never have met. When we look back to
our first impressions of each other, we look back to _you_.
"I must keep my promise not to weary you; I must bring this letter
(sorely against my will) to an end. Patience! patience! I shall see you
soon. George and I are both coming to London to take you back with us to
Ventnor. This is my husband's invitation, mind, as well as mine. Don't
suppose I married him, Magdalen, until I had taught him to think of you
as I think--to wish with my wishes, and to hope with my hopes. I could
say so much more about this, so much more about George, if I might only
give my thoughts and my pen their own way; but I must leave Miss Garth
(at her own special request) a blank space to fill up on the last
page of this letter; and I must only add one word more before I say
good-by--a word to warn you that I have another surprise in store, which
I am keeping in reserve until we meet.
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