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 : Uncle Arthur sent you  your father  to look after the mines. They were in a bad way and you saved them. You don’t remember?

So I went to Mexico. And then I met Kitty and oh, I can’t believe all this  that it’s all happened to me, and I don’t know it. I don’t mean I doubt you, Jenny I know it’s true, but  it’s like  believing in prehistoric man  all the things archæologists tell us. You know it’s true but you don’t believe it  quite. You don’t really believe anything you haven’t known for yourself. And that poor girl Kitty  you say she’s my wife  that I married her. Why? Why didn’t I marry Margaret? I love her so terribly. You don’t know how sweet and dear and lovely she is. Ever since the first time I went down there from Uncle Ambrose’s on the other bank of the river  and she came across, as she always did, in the punt they used as a ferry, to bring me over, and gave me tea at the inn her father kept  I knew I loved her. I was going to marry her I'd told her I loved her, and she loved me too. I remember there was a quarrel oh, the stupidest quarrel  but it couldn’t have been that. I was jealous and foolish but I wrote to make it up, I know I did, and  and then I can’t remember any more. And she’s all that matters to me all that’s real or beautiful in life. If you’d seen her