"I've got all the good out of it that there was in it, for me, and I shouldn't go home any better six months hence than I should now.

Italy will keep for another time, and so, for the matter of that, will Holland." "No, no!" she interposed.

"We won't give up Holland, whatever we do.

I couldn't go home feeling that I had kept you out of your after-cure; and when we get there, no doubt the sea air will bring me up so that I shall want to go to Italy, too, again.

Though it seems so far off, now! But go and see when the afternoon train for the Hague leaves, and I shall be ready.