"If that were only true, I am sure I should be most happy, for it has been my fortune so far to conjure up only pleasure through day-dreaming--the things I like and long for become my very own then.

But if you mean, as I suspect, that I do not enjoy the dirt and drudgery of life, then my plea will have to be guilty.

I, of course, grant their necessity, yet apparently there are plenty who find them well worth while, and there should be other work for those who aspire.

Back of what you term practical some one has said there is always a dream, a first conception.

In that sense I choose to be a dreamer." "And not so unwise a choice, if your dreams only tend toward results." He sat looking into her animated face, deeply puzzled by both words and actions.