Maybe she could interest him in land; if she could, that would be ideal.

What a place his wealth would buy and fit up.

She wondered as she studied John Jardine, what was in his head; if he truly intended to ask her to be his wife, and since reading Nancy Ellen's letter, when?
She should let the Trustee know if she were not going to teach the school again; but someway, she rather wanted to teach the school.

When she started anything she did not know how to stop until she finished.

She had so much she wanted to teach her pupils the coming winter.
Suddenly John asked: "Kate, if you could have anything you wanted, what would you have ?" "Two hundred acres of land," she said.
"How easy!" laughed John, rising to find a seat for his mother who was approaching them.