But you'll go through the mill presently.

All we farmers' wives do.

You and Burke Ranger won't go on in this Garden of Eden style very long." Sylvia laughed with a touch of uncertainty.

"I suppose it's a mistake to expect too much of life anywhere," she said.

"But it's difficult to be miserable when one is really busy, isn't it?
Anyhow one can't be bored." "Are you really happy here ?" Mrs.Merston asked point-blank, in the tone of one presenting a challenge.
Sylvia paused for a moment, only a moment, and then she answered, "Yes." "And you've been married how long?
Six weeks ?" "About that," said Sylvia.
Mrs.Merston looked at her, and an almost cruel look came into her pale eyes.