6/11 She prefers to stay here with me. But I don't quite fancy that idea--through all the hot June and July--so I don't know but I'll get a cottage somewhere near at one of the beaches, where I can run back and forth night and morning. Of course, in that case, we take Pete and Dong Ling with us and close the house right away. I fear Cyril would not fancy it much; but, after all, he and Bertram would be off more or less. "It's away!--away from all this--from you--that I want to get Billy." "Away! Away from me," cried the man, with an odd intonation of terror, as he started forward in his chair. |