17/27 Oh, but I should like another, a large one at the top, and a little garden where one could grow flowers. A path--so--down to a river, or up to a wood, and the sea not very far off, so that one could hear the waves at night. Ships just vanishing on the horizon--" She broke off. "Shall you be near the sea ?" "My notion of perfect happiness," he began, not replying to her question, "is to live as you've said." "Well, now you can. You will work, I suppose," she continued; "you'll work all the morning and again after tea and perhaps at night. |