"If you really want to attempt anything in the shape of a rest-cure, I can recommend my home thoroughly.

I am afraid," he added, with a shrug of the shoulders, "that I cannot recommend it for anything else." "A rest," the Princess declared, "is exactly what we want.

Life here is becoming altogether too strenuous.

We started the season a little early.

I am perfectly certain that we could not possibly last till the end.