Although you're a beginner, you manage very well, and I'd object to improvements on somebody else's plan." Helen smiled.

"When you talk like that, you're charming; but we'll say no more about it.

You look tired.

Are you sure you are not working too hard?
The last time Jasper came he seemed surprised when he saw the ground you had broken.

I imagined he thought you were trying to do too much." As she spoke she glanced at the wide belt of plowing that broke the delicate green and silver of the grass.