"My wife is in the strictest sense my sole companion, and I need no
other; there is no vacancy in my mind any more than in my heart. In
truth, I have spent so many years in total seclusion from all human
society that it is no wonder if now I feel all my desires satisfied
by this sole intercourse. But she has come to me from the midst of
many friends and acquaintances; yet she lives from day to day in
this solitude, seeing nobody but myself and our Molly, while the
snow of our avenue is untrodden for weeks by any footstep save
mine. Yet she is always cheerful. Thank God that I suffice for her
boundless heart."