But in a sense--don't be alarmed--I shall always live in Canada.

Or, rather, I shall never be quite the same again; and Mr.
Arthur would find me a restless, impracticable, discontented woman.
"Would it not really be kinder if I suggested to him to go home by California, while we come back again through the Rockies?
Don't you think it would?
I feel that I have begun to get on his nerves--as he on mine.

If you were only here! But, I assure you, he doesn't _look_ miserable; and I think he will bear up very well.

And if it will be any comfort to you to be told that I know what is meant by the gnawing of the little worm, Compunction, then be comforted, dearest; for it gnaws horribly, and out of all proportion--I vow--to my crimes.
"Philip is better on the whole, and has taken an enormous fancy to Mr.
Anderson.

But, as I have told you all along, he is not so much better as you and I hoped he would be.