it will be much more comfortable for you to live here as it would be impossible for me to go home and as we have been separated so long it would be miserable for us both for you to live at the cottage and me up here. Jessie is here also and she is a great assistance to me. Had I known love that you would be away so long I would have written a few lines to you every day but I thought you would be in so soon that I would not have another opportunity of sending a letter to you. I trust my darling husband that this is the last I shall send but before the next opportunity I shall have you with me. I hope the first Christmas and New Year of our married life we will spend together. You only spent one Christmas here and that was before we were engaged and I often think that day was the first commencement of our love. I felt that I would have given anything to