"We are all very well as a diversion, but as a constancy we should pall upon him.

I never could keep up to the level I have been maintaining for the last twenty-four hours, that is certain.

It is nothing short of degradation to struggle as hard to amuse a boy as I have struggled to amuse Edgar.

I don't believe he could endure such exhilaration week after week, and I am very sure it would kill me.

Besides, he will fancy he is going to be watched and reported at headquarters in Santa Barbara!" "I think very likely you are right; but perhaps I can put the matter so that it will strike him in some other light." "Very well, mamacita; I 'm resigned.