"Supposing you had not happened to meet me?
You could scarcely have rung my bell at this hour of the night." "I should have been content to have seen the lights and to have known that you had arrived." "You dear man!" she exclaimed, with a sudden smile, a smile of entire and sweet friendliness.

"I like the thought of your doing that.

It is something to know that one is welcome, when one breaks away from the routine of one's life, as I have." "Tell me why you have done it ?" he asked.
She looked back into the fire.
"Everything was going a little wrong," she explained.

"One of my farmers was troublesome, and the snow has stopped work and hunting.

We lost thirty of our best ewes last week.