So, Hope will be when she knows.

As I have not read the novel it all will come as a splendid and pleasant surprise.

I am looking forward to sitting down to it with all the pleasure in the world.
You chose the right moment to elope.

Never was weather so cold, cruel and bitter.

Hope is the only one who goes out of doors.
I start the fires in the Big House tomorrow and the plumbers and paper hangers, painters enter the day after.
The attack on Verdun makes me sick.