It reminds me of a poem I once read that began, 'It's easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song.' I can't remember any more of it, except that it conveyed the thought that the only persons who are really worth while are the ones who can keep on being pleasant even when everything in their lives goes wrong.
So we ought to try to smile over this little hardship and look at it as being just one of the vicissitudes that life is bound to bring us." "But I don't like to see hardship and vicissitudes creeping into our Golden Summer," protested Tom, not quite satisfied to adjust himself to Grace's more optimistic view of the situation.

"I'm selfish about it, I'm afraid.

When, after a long dark winter, a man is suddenly turned loose in the sunshine, he is naturally anxious to stay there.

Just because I'm saying that, I don't mean that I would dream of failing Aunt Rose.

I'd go even if it meant we'd have to put off our marriage a few weeks longer." "And I would wish you to go," agreed Grace earnestly.