6/15 "To nurse! a girl of seventeen! She'll want to be going out to balls and things--at her age." As if smitten to the earth by this last awful idea, he picks his glasses out of the sugar and goes back to the letter. Most loving, and tender-hearted; and full of life and spirits." "Good heavens!" says the professor. He puts down the letter again, and begins to pace the room. "'Life and spirits.' A sort of young kangaroo, no doubt. What will the landlady say? |