Right Here and Now Part 1

Three days after Ernest Teucher told Eleanor Valemont that he loved her, he decided he was going to marry her.

It was not an entirely new idea. The thought had been taking root in the quiet spaces between his working hours—watching her laugh on the hillside at Willowbrook, standing together in the dimly lit workshop of the old forge, and listening to her read to the children at St. Margaret's. He had already begun imagining their mornings, the arguments over estate ledgers, her medical books resting beside his engineering journals, and children running across the lawns of Oriel Estate.

Imagining a future, however, was merely a concept. A decision was an engineering commitment.