You'll stay and take tea with us, of course." "Thanks, if you will have me; I was hoping to be asked." "Oh, we're only too glad to have you.

Our time here is getting so short that we want to make the very most of all our friends; and by good luck there is a can of oysters in the house, so I can give you something hot." "Do you really go so soon ?" "Our lease is out next week, you know." "Really; so soon as that ?" "It isn't soon.

We have lived here nearly eight months." "What a good time we have all had in this little house!" cried Geoff, regretfully.

"It has been a sort of warm little centre to us homeless people all winter." "You don't count yourself among the homeless ones, I hope, with such a pleasant place as the High Valley to live in." "Oh, the hut is all very well in its way, of course; but I don't look at it as a home exactly.

It answers to eat and sleep in, and for a shelter when it rains; but you can't make much more of it than that.