Morning to the Office as soon as I found Abby had somebody with her to amuse her. Obtained for my father the Dividend upon his Stock of the Fire and Marine Insurance Company and upon my own and wrote my Journal,1 made up my Accounts. This occupied much of my time—So that I found it was time for me to return as I had promised before I was aware of it. I found Abby with a number of visitors, her sisters Eliza and Susan with Edward and Blake and Quincy.2 The morning therefore passed away rapidly. After dinner I remained at home and idled the time away very pleasantly. Mr. Frothingham dropped in for a minute but seemed a little dull.3 The evening passed quietly. I was a little apprehensive of the tone of her spirits as this was an evening when she expected to be at home,4 or at least felt a little tempted to regret her absence. But though I perceived a cloud she had too much kindness to show it much and that made it lighter to herself. Indeed I have the utmost reason to be satisfied with her today and ever since our marriage—she has been kind and affectionate, patient and good tempered so that I have been as happy as circumstances well could make me.