But now, about Rosie and her betrothed.

Do they not expect to settle somewhere in this region, cousin ?" "I think that question remains yet to be fully discussed; it is certainly still undecided.

Probably they will not for some time settle permanently in any one spot.

Mrs.Croly is an invalid, almost constantly being taken from place to place in search of health, and never satisfied to be long separated from either husband or son--her only child." "Ah, I'm afraid that will make it hard for Rosie," said Marian.

"By the way, I think they would better bring her here and put her in our doctor's care," she added with a smiling and arch look up into her husband's face.
"Ah, my dear!" he said with a slight smile and a warning shake of the head, "don't allow yourself to take to the business of hunting up cases for me; especially chronic and incurable ones." "But is she so bad as that ?" asked Marian, turning to her cousin Elsie again.
"I suppose so," Elsie replied.