I never saw anybody enjoy fixing up a house as you do!" "Did you ever see anybody fix up a house, anyway ?" "I'm not sure I ever did.

I had very little home life, dear." "Well, you're going to make up for that now.

You're going to have so much home life from now on, that you can hardly stagger under it.

And I'm going to make it!" "Then it will be a real true home-made home! Sometimes, Patty, I fear that with all your tea-houses and formal gardens you'll lose the real homey effect--" "Lose your grandmother! Why, in the right hands, all those faddy things melt into one big bundle of hominess, and you feel as if you'd always had 'em.

Soon you'll declare you've never lived without a Japanese tea-garden in your back yard!" "I believe you! You'd make a home feeling in the Parthenon,--if you chose to live there!" "Of course I should! Or in the Coliseum, or in the Taj Mahal." "There, there, that will do! Don't carry your vaunts further! Now come around the house, and let's go in under the wistaria.