"He must have been a nice traveling companion.

Has it been like that all the time ?" "Most of it," she said, "but not quite all, and this morning was rather an exaggeration of the regular thing.

But getting started on a journey was usually pretty awful.

Once we quite missed our train because he couldn't make up his mind whether to put on a light overcoat or a heavy one.

I finally settled the question for him, but we were just too late." "You must be a very amiable person," remarked John.
"Indeed, I am not," she declared, "but Julius is, and it's almost impossible to be really put out with him, particularly in his condition.
I have come to believe that he can not help it, and he submits to my bullying with such sweetness that even my impatience gives way." "Have you three people been alone together all the time ?" John asked.
"Yes," she replied, "except for four or five weeks.