But, joking aside, there is very little risk.

It is going to be a great winter for Santa Barbara, and your house is attractive, convenient, and excellently located.

If we can get your affairs into such shape that your mother will not be anxious, I hope, and think, that the entire change and rest, together with the bracing air, will work wonders.

I shall give you a letter to a physician, a friend of mine, and fortunately I shall come up once a month during the winter to see an old patient who insists on retaining me just from force of habit." "And in another year, Dr.George, I shall be ready to take care of mamma myself; and then-- "She shall sit on a cushion, and sew a fine seam, And feast upon strawberries, sugar, and cream." "Assuredly, my Polly, assuredly." The doctor was pacing up and down the office now, hands in pockets, eyes on floor.

"The world is your oyster; open it, my dear,--open it.