Yes, sir! I was afraid maybe you had got it too good, with that Boston refinement of yours; but I reckon you haven't.

I'll risk it.

I don't see how you got so much variety into so few things, and all of them palpitant, all of 'em on the keen jump with actuality." The mixture of American slang with the jargon of European criticism in Fulkerson's talk made March smile, but his wife did not seem to notice it in her exultation.

"That is just what I say," she broke in.

"It's perfectly wonderful.