Marcia Schuyler Part 38

We'll go to Albany and buy you a trousseau, and then we will go wherever you wish. I can stay a whole week if you wish. Would you like to go home for a visit?"

Marcia, with s.h.i.+ning eyes and glowing cheeks, looked her love into his face and answered: "Yes, _now_ I would like to go home,-just for a few days-and then back to our home."

And David looking into her eyes understood why she had not wanted to go before. She was taking her husband, _her_ husband, not Kate's, with her now, and might be proud of his love. She could go among her old comrades and be happy, for he loved her. He looked a moment, comprehended, sympathized, and then pressing her hand close-for he might not kiss her, as there was a load of hay coming their way-he said: "Darling!" But their eyes said more.

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