Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.

The speaker imagines companionship not as grand romance but as mutual caretaking: being “a comfortable couple” who look after one another in the ordinary rhythms of life. The emphasis falls on constancy (“always”) and the small, sustaining pleasures of intimacy—talking, sitting together—rather than on passion or social display. The line suggests a humane ideal of partnership as a refuge from loneliness and uncertainty, where affection is proven through presence and daily attention. In Dickens’s moral universe, such domestic fellowship often functions as a counterweight to hardship, isolation, and the impersonality of institutions or city life.