It's a wonderful state, but what a life! What a life! Surely I was made for something better.

I don't wonder--" "What ?" he asked sharply.
"Oh, nothing.

I feel ungrateful, of course.

I really should be quite happy.

Think if I had to go back to Rouen to live--after this taste of freedom, and beauty--for California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices--" "There is not the remotest danger of your ever being obliged to live in Rouen again--" "Oh, I don't know.