"What courage they must have, to plunge into New York as they've done! I really didn't think they would.

I wonder if they've succeeded in getting anybody into their house yet ?" "I don't know," said Beaton.
"I discouraged their coming all I could," she sighed, "and I suppose you did, too.

But it's quite useless trying to make people in a place like St.Barnaby understand how it is in town." "Yes," said Beaton.

He stirred his tea, while inwardly he tried to believe that he had really discouraged the Leightons from coming to New York.

Perhaps the vexation of his failure made him call Mrs.Horn in his heart a fraud.
"Yes," she went on, "it is very, very hard.