You don't look upon our future habitation as a sort of Avernus ?" John laughed merrily.

"No, as I told you before, I like Enderley Hill.
I can't tell why, but I like it.

It seems as if I had known the place before.

I feel as if we were going to have great happiness here." And as he spoke, his unwonted buoyancy softened into a quietness of manner more befitting that word "happiness." Strange word! hardly in my vocabulary.

Yet, when he uttered it, I seemed to understand it and to be content.
We wound a little way down the slope, and came in front of Rose Cottage.