I have seen the world, and am tired of it, and now I want a house for Gretchen and myself, and you too.

I expect you to stay with me as long as we pull together pleasantly and you do not interfere with my plans.

I am going to take the three south rooms on the second floor for my own.

I shall put folding-doors, or rather a wide arch between two of them, making them almost like one, and these I shall fit up to suit my own taste.

In the smaller and middle room, where I slept last night, I shall have a large bow window, with shelves for books in the spaces between and beneath, and by the sides of the windows.