Let them look after their house.' Perhaps Emma detected something not wholly sincere in this suggestion.
She let her eyes fall, then raised them more quickly.
'Oh, but it's far better, Richard; and we really have made a beginning.
Jane, I'm sure, wouldn't hear of giving it up.

It's wonderful what spirits she has.

And she'd be miserable if she wasn't trying to work--I know so well how it would be.

Just a few weeks longer.

She really does get much better, and she says it's all "the business." It gives her something to occupy her mind.' 'Well, it's just as you like,' said Richard, rather absently.
'But you do think it best, don't you, dear ?' she urged.