It was very sad for poor
May to leave, not only childhood's home, parents, and brothers and sisters
whose lease of life seemed as likely to be long as her own, but to part
from the dying one to whom she was most tenderly attached.
But Harry promised to bring her back; and she was to be immediately
summoned, in case of any marked unfavorable change in the invalid.
Then, too, Harold was so serenely happy in the prospect before him, and
talked so constantly of it as only going home a little while before the
rest, and of how at length all would be reunited in that better land, to
spend together an eternity of bliss, that it had robbed death of half its
gloom and terror.
It was Harold's earnest desire that all his dear ones should be as gay and
happy as though he were in health; he would not willingly cast a shadow
over the pathway of any of them, for a day; especially the newly married,
whose honeymoon, he said, ought to be a very bright spot for them to look
back upon in all after years.
So Lottie felt it right to let her heart swell with gladness in the new
love that crowned her life; and the time passed cheerfully and pleasantly
to the guests at Elmgrove.
Mrs. Ross and her mother, and Miss Stanhope, remained for a fortnight
after the wedding.
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