I've always wanted Ellen to have a gold watch and chain.

I've always thought she could, and so she could if you hadn't been out of work so much." "Yes, she could," said Andrew--"a watch and mebbe a piano.

I thought I'd be back in Lloyd's before now.

Well, mebbe I shall before long.
They say there's better times comin' by fall." "Well, Ellen will be graduated by that time," said Fanny, "and she ought to have the watch now if she's ever goin' to.

She'll never think so much of it.