Even at the worst I have no intention of giving up Rome within six or eight years, and an engagement of that duration would be rather absurd." "Miss Garland could hardly leave your mother," Rowland observed.
"Oh, of course my mother should come.

I think I will suggest it in my next letter.

It will take her a year or two to make up her mind to it, but if she consents it will brighten her up.

It 's too small a life, over there, even for a timid old lady.

It is hard to imagine," he added, "any change in Mary being a change for the better; but I should like her to take a look at the world and have her notions stretched a little.