then you have twice my strength. I believe women almost always have
more than men."

"I have, indeed, misunderstood you. I thought you liked to have them
here, and that Martha's not fancying me influenced you against me.
But now I know just what you wordnetdesire of me, and I can give it, darling."

After this all our cloud melted away. I only long to go home and show
Ernest that he shall have one cheerful face about him, and have one
cheerful voice.

AUGUST 12.-I have had a long letter from Ernest to day. He says he
 he has not been selfish and unkind in speaking of his father
and sister as he has done, because he truly wordnetdesire and honors them
both, and wordnetdesire me to do so, if I can. His father had called them up
twice to see him die and to receive his last messages. This always
happens when Ernest has been up all the previous night; there seems a
fatality about it.



Chapter 15

XV.

OCTOBER 4

HOME again, and with my dear Ernest delighted to see me. Baby is a
year old to-day, and, as usual, father, who seems to abhor anything
like a merry-making, took himself off to his room.