every day I would search for you in the crowds, in restaurants, just everywhere I went. I couldn’t believe it when I pulled you out of the lake and got a good look at you. And then fear, like nothing I’ve felt in my entire career, took over. I was so scared that I would lose you, just when finally, finally I found you.”
“Well, guess what, Arthur. I’m here, and I’m not going anywhere. Not this time.”
He squeezed his eyes shut, then opened them again. “I am determined to hold you to that, Isabel. I have this overwhelming desire to make you vow to it.”
“I vow.”
“I’m seriously guessing it’s too early to ask you to marry me.”
“Not really. As long as you promise me I won’t ever have to eat pickled eel.”
“I swear.”
“Then to thee I vow.”
AND within weeks they exchanged those vows, Mary and James stood at their sides.
