I couldn't bear to go off without you, and stay a whole year, maybe--but if you should go, not knowing just what it was going to be like, and then be disappointed--you see, dear, you might come to blaming poor Kate." "Why, I wouldn't do anything of the kind! Even if it did turn out to be something I didn't care for, it would be so much better than staying here with you gone, that I don't see how I could mind very much.

You know, Kate, I'm just crazy about the country.

I'd like to sleep right outside! And I think a log cabin is the dearest way to live--don't you?
And we'd hike, wouldn't we ?--up to the lake and all around.

I've got enough money to buy a gun, and if there's any hunting around there, we'll hunt! Kate, down in my heart I'm sick of massaging old ladies' double chins and kidding them into thinking they look young! And anyway," she added straightforwardly, "I don't suppose I'll be at the Martha much longer.

They're going to let a lot of us girls out, and I'm almost sure to be one of them.