Besides, Mark considered all the difficulties.
He is wonderfully clever, and he has a clerkship in a Portsmouth
law office waiting for him; and that's where we are going to
live, in New Hampshire, where we were married, and my darling
sister will come soon and stay months and months with us."
"When is Mark coming back to arrange all this?"
"Late to-night or early to-morrow morning.
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"Where did you go after you were married?"
"Where did I go?" echoed Patty, in a childish burst of tears.
"Where could I go? It took all day to be married--all day long,
working and driving hard from sunrise to seven o'clock in the
evening. Then when we reached the bridge, Mark dropped me, and I
walked up home in the dark, and went to bed without any supper,
for fear that you and father would come back and catch me at it
and ask why I was so late."
"My poor, foolish dear!" sighed Waitstill.
Patty's tears flowed faster at the first sound of sympathy in
Waitstill's voice, for self-pity is very enfeebling. She fairly
sobbed as she continued:--
"So my only wedding-journey was the freezing drive back from
Allentown, with Ellen crying all the way and wishing that she
hadn't gone with us. Mark and I both say we'll never be married
again so long as we live!"
"Where have you seen your husband from that day to this?"
"I haven't laid eyes on him!" said Patty, with a fresh burst of
woe.
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