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“You know I do!” Lewis said, but she wondered. How could she not? They’d known one another for precisely two days, and how could a marriage last when they were strangers?
“I’ll change and be right back down,” she said.
He watched her as she climbed the stairs, thinking about how truly beautiful she was. And kind. And loving. And free-spirited. She was a bloomers-wearing, bicycle-riding lady from the east. And he was going to hold on to her as tightly as he could.
David walked up behind him and clapped him on the back. “Do I need to give you the good husband talk?”
“No. I sat in on the one you had with Albert. I’ll be just fine.”
“Just treat her as you would like to see your sisters treated.”
Those words struck Lewis. He had several sisters, and he couldn’t imagine a man treating any of them poorly. He would hurt any man who so much as looked at one of his sisters wrong. And then he understood what his father was saying. He should treat Sydney exactly how he thought his sisters should be treated by their future husbands.
As if they were made of spun glass.
