"But me, perhaps, you 'll never see again." "Why then should we wish to be friends, if nothing is to come of it ?" she asked, with homely logic.

But by this time she had consented, and they were treading the fallen pine-needles.
"Oh, one must take all one can get," said Rowland.

"If we can be friends for half an hour, it 's so much gained." "Do you expect never to come back to Northampton again ?" "'Never' is a good deal to say.

But I go to Europe for a long stay." "Do you prefer it so much to your own country ?" "I will not say that.

But I have the misfortune to be a rather idle man, and in Europe the burden of idleness is less heavy than here." She was silent for a few minutes; then at last, "In that, then, we are better than Europe," she said.