Clover regretted this; but Fate, as Fate often does, brought a compensation.

Mrs.Watson had no mind whatever for the Ute Valley.
"It's a dull place, they tell me, and there's nothing to do there but ride on horseback, and as I don't ride on horseback, I really don't see what use there would be in my going," she said to Clover.

"If I were young, and there were young men ready to ride with me all the time, it would be different; though Ellen never did care to, except with Henry of course, after they--And I really can't see that your brother's much different from what he was, though if Dr.Hope says so, naturally you--He's a queer kind of doctor, it seems to me, to send lung patients up higher than this,--which is high already, gracious knows.

No; if you decide to go, I shall just move over to the Shoshone for the rest of the time that I'm here.

I'm sure that Dr.Carr couldn't expect me to stay on here alone, just for the chance that you may want to come back, when as like as not, Mrs.Marsh won't be able to take you again." "Oh, no; I'm quite sure he wouldn't.