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earth as a single man if he said yes. One sentence and his fate would be sealed.
    "I will," Nathaniel said though he felt as if the blood in his body had turned to ice and the breath wouldn't leave his chest as he forced the words out.
    There was one last moment where he could be saved. One last instance where God or whatever fate ruled the world might keep him from the marriage. Sophronia could still say no.
    "I will," she said. He felt his knees grow weak beneath him and he worried he might tumble forward.
    "Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder."
    It was over. Sophronia was his legal wife and if there was a God he was the husband of her in His sight as well. Now, there was only death that could release him from his duty.

Chapter 5
     
    Sophronia sighed and lowered herself onto the bed. After the wedding her now sisters-in-law had returned her to her room and helped her out of her wedding dress and into a casual dress that fitted much more loosely around her belly which was a relief. The babe inside of her had not appreciated the squishing of his home and had flailed about within her during the whole of the ceremony. The baby had never before been so active and she felt exhausted. Now that she was lying in her bed the flailing had ceased and she wondered if she should try to nap before the dinner hour. She had just closed her eyes when there was a knock at the door. Sophronia sighed and then pulled herself up to walk across the room and open the door.
    "Your trunks have arrived. Shall I send my daughter up to help you unpack?" Ruth asked.
    "Thank you," Sophronia said with a nod.
    Two footmen appeared a moment later laden with her trunks. They left and returned several times before they had finally brought her all that she had come to England with and acquired during her visit. Then, a girl who was almost but not quite a woman appeared. Wordlessly, she opened the first trunk and began pulling out the dresses and neatly putting them away in the adjacent dressing room. It was a small dressing room and her things immediately began to cramp it.
    "I suppose I should ask my husband if he plans for us to stay here or if he wishes us a household of his own. I am sure his father would allow us always to call this place home but I had thought most men preferred space of their own."
    The girl grunted in response but said nothing.
    "I suppose it does not matter to me one way or another. I have not had time to ask my husband of his plans though they are likely as ruined as my own."
    The girl grunted again. Sophronia sat down on the bed and let the room remain in silence for a moment except for the sounds of unpacking but then the silence became overwhelming and she decided that even if the girl did not care a bit about what she was saying at least talking would keep her entertained until the girl left and she could take the nap she had planned on.
    "I had planned to go to one of the female academies. My mother has never approved of more than necessary education for women but I have always enjoyed reading books and learning history. Not just the history that can be used for small talk at parties but everything. I had the pleasure of speaking to an archeologist once at a party. He was the student of William Cunnington and as excited about history as a man could be. All the other girls were quickly bored by him but not me. I could have listened to him for hours if mother had not dragged me away.
    I think I would have done well at the academy. I wanted to end up a teacher. I believe that someday women will have more schooling options and I would love to be one of the first women to teach budding girls who will grow to be teachers and nurses. Then, if slavery is ever abolished, there will be even more women in need of proper education. I do not know if education is something that female negro aspire to as of yet but I am sure if they are freed from slavery they can be convinced that education will allow them better