The changes in the weather have been so great and so abrupt that they have worn upon his nerves.

He is getting very uneasy again.

Now, after spending the winter, and when spring is almost at hand, I believe that if he could make up his mind where to go he would be for setting off to-morrow." "Really ?" said John, in a tone of dismay.
"Quite so," she replied with a nod.
"But," he objected, "it seems too late or too early.

Spring may drop in upon us any day.

Isn't this something very recent ?" "It has been developing for a week or ten days," she answered, "and symptoms have indicated a crisis for some time.