To come home hungry at night and know there was a good supper and a cheery fire — andyou.

“But I didn’t realise what you actually meant to me till that moment at the switch. Then it came like a lightning flash. I knew I couldn’t live without you — that if I couldn’t pull you loose in time I’d have to die with you. I admit it bowled me over — knocked me silly. I couldn’t get my bearings for a while. That’s why I acted like a mule. But the thought that drove me to the tall timber was the awful one that you were going to die. I’d always hated the thought of it — but I supposed there wasn’t any chance for you, so I put it out of my mind. Now I had to face it — you were under sentence of death and I couldn’t live without you.