It was a sight to make an old heart young to see him march up the aisle of the church on Sunday in all the glossy splendour of his wedding suit , his curly black head held high and his round boyish face shining with happiness , stopping and turning proudly at his pew to show Theodosia in . They always sat alone together in the big pew , and Alma Spencer , who sat behind them , declared that they held each other 's hands all through the service . This lasted until spring ; then came a sensation and scandal , such as decorous Heatherton had not known since the time Isaac Allen got drunk at Centreville Fair and came home and kicked his wife . One evening in early April Wesley came home from the store at `` the Corner , '' where he had lingered to talk over politics and farming methods with his cronies . This evening he was later than usual , and Theodosia had his supper kept warm for him . She met him on the porch and kissed him . He kissed her in return , and held her to him for a minute , with her bright head on his shoulder . The frogs were singing down in the south meadow swamp , and there was a splendour of silvery moonrise over the wooded Heatherton hills . Theodosia always remembered that moment . When they went in , Wesley , full of excitement , began to talk of what he had heard at the store . Ogden Greene and Tom Cary were going to sell out and go to Manitoba . There were better chances for a man out there , he said ; in Heatherton he might slave all his life and never make more than a bare living . Out west he might make a fortune . Wesley talked on in this strain for some time , rehashing all the arguments he had heard Greene and Cary use . He had always been rather disposed to grumble at his limited chances in Heatherton , and now the great West seemed to stretch before him , full of alluring prospects and visions . Ogden and Tom wanted him to go too , he said . He had half a notion to . Heatherton was a stick-in-the-mud sort of place anyhow . `` What say , Dosia ? '' He looked across the table at her , his eyes bright and questioning .
Theodosia had listened in silence , XXXXX she poured his tea and passed him her hot , flaky biscuits .
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