In this summer weather you will find it very beautiful; and you know how glad I shall be to have you for my guest.

My guest, I say; for while grandfather lies so dangerously ill I must be what my mother would have been--mistress of the house.

I shall hardly feel more lonely than I always did when he was active, for we had but little intercourse.

In case of his death, which I suppose to be very near, I shall not care to live at the old place.

In fact, I do not very clearly see what I am to do.