And--I have no designs on a great Canadian novel," laughed Anne.

"That is quite beyond me." Owen Ford laughed too.
"I dare say it is beyond me as well.

All the same I mean to have a try at it some day, if I can ever get time.

A newspaper man doesn't have much chance for that sort of thing.

I've done a good deal of short story writing for the magazines, but I've never had the leisure that seems to be necessary for the writing of a book.