"We have got to consider what we will do about the summer, before long, Basil." "Oh, not yet, not yet," he pleaded; with that man's willingness to abide in the present, which is so trying to a woman.

"It's only the end of April." "It will be the end of June before we know.

And these people wanting the Boston house another year complicates it.

We can't spend the summer there, as we planned." "They oughtn't to have offered us an increased rent; they have taken an advantage of us." "I don't know that it matters," said Mrs.March.

"I had decided not to go there." "Had you?
This is a surprise." "Everything is a surprise to you, Basil, when it happens." "True; I keep the world fresh, that way." "It wouldn't have been any change to go from one city to another for the summer.