It contradicts all sorts of things I've heard you say at other times .-- Do _you_ think, Mamma, that Mr.Rolfe missed his vocation when he didn't become a sheep-farmer ?' Mrs.Frothingham gently shook her head.

No trace of nervousness appeared in her today; manipulating the coloured silks, she only now and then put in a quiet word, but followed the talk with interest.
'But I quite thought you had been to Australia,' Alma resumed.

'You see, it's very theoretical, your admiration of the new countries.

And I believe you would rather die at once in England than go to live in any such part of the world.' 'Weakness of mind, that's all.' 'Still, you admit it.

That's something gained.