Elijah kept holding her. "It's alright.. I'm glad he hasn't done that. That doesn't mean there is anything shameful about you not wanting to go back. I can't imagine how awful it must be to play wife to a man you don't know in such a strange place. I really wish they had let you stay here and get used to him first, but your father thinks you need to be pushed away and be forced to get used to things. " He sighed as he tried to think. He would ask to let her stay with him, maybe as a maid as it would be very easy work and she could stay in town, but no one would agree to it.