I'm sure he would understand, if you told him that.
And then, if the sight of the wagons was too annoying, he could put up some kind of a screen, or plant a row of fir trees by the fence.

Don't you think so ?" I imagined the great man's reply to such a suggestion.

However, I did not express my thoughts.

I told Mother not to worry, I was sure everything would be all right, and, as Dorinda called me to supper, I went into the dining-room.
Lute was waiting for me at the table, and Dorinda, after taking the tray into Mother's room, joined us.

Lute was so full of excitement and curiosity that he almost forgot to eat, a miracle of itself and made greater by the fact that he did not ask a single question until his wife asked one first.