I don't know though, even with the admirable supervision I'd have over you then, whether you would take proper care of yourself, my Brownie.

What would you do ?" "I don't know quite," she answered.

"I think I should want to get pretty near the grate.

I'd pull one of the tiger-skins or bear-skins on the rug, very close to the fire, and I'd curl down on the fur and turn about a little, and get very warm." He assumed a lofty air, and announced that he was under the impression that, when chilled, she would do nothing of the sort! He had his own ideas regarding the treatment of chills of small, brown women.

What would really occur, what the solid, tangible fact of the occasion would be, required no effort to describe.