At Templeton I speedily made known my profession, and soon had a
very good medical practice which one or two "remarkable cures"
materially increased. I was doing well and making money. I boarded
in a respectable farmer's family, and after living there about six
months there came another most unhappy occurrence. From the day,
almost, when I began to board with this farmer there sprung up a
strong attachment between myself and his youngest daughter which
soon ripened into mutual love. She rode about with me when I went to
see my patients, who were getting to be numerous, and we were much
in each other's company.

On one occasion she accompanied me to Worces- ter where I had some
patients. We went to a public house where she and her family were
well known, and when she was asked by the landlord how she happened
to come there with the doctor, her prompt answer was:

"Why, we are married; did'nt you know it?"

She refused even to go to the table without my attendance, and when
I was out visiting some patients, she waited for her meals till I
came back. We stayed there but two days and returned together to
Templeton.

A month afterward her brother was in Worcester, and stopped at this
house. The landlord, after some conversation about general matters,
said:

"So your sister is married to the Doctor?"