Rather than have you unsettled, I would like to have you settled there.

You have interesting friends, I know.' 'Yes, very interesting,' said Althea, with some satisfaction.
'You would probably make quite a place for yourself in London, if you went at it carefully and consideringly, and didn't allow the wrong sort of people to _accaparer_ you.

We always count, when we want to, we American women of the good type,' said Miss Robinson, with frank complacency; 'and I don't see why, with your gifts and charm, you shouldn't have a salon, political or artistic.' Althea was again tempted to wonder what it was Miss Robinson counted for; but since she had often been told that her gifts and charm demanded a salon, she was inclined to believe it.

'It's only,' she demurred, 'that I have so many friends, in so many places; it is hard to decide on settling.' 'One never does make a real life for oneself until one does settle.

I've found that out for myself,' said Miss Robinson.
It did not enter into her mind that Althea might still settle, in a different sense.