No.
"He had been too good to the poor girl to take her at her word." It
was thus he argued on the matter within his own breast. He had been
too true to her; and now the effect would be that they would both be
unhappy for life! He could not live in content with a family upon a
small income. He was well aware of that. No one could be harder upon
him in that matter than was he himself. But it was too late now to
remedy the ill effects of an early education.
It was thus that he debated the matter as he lay in bed,
contradicting one argument by another over and over again; but still
in all of them teaching himself to think that this engagement of his
was a misfortune. Poor Lily! Her last words to him had conveyed an
assurance that she would never distrust him. And she also, as she lay
wakeful in her bed on this the first morning of his absence, thought
much of their mutual vows. How true she would be to them! How she
would be his wife with all her heart and spirit! It was not only
that she would love him;--but in her love she would serve him to her
utmost; serve him as regarded this world, and if possible as regarded
the next.
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