And of course you must stay"-- Charlotte was easily clear--"as long as possible." "Is that what you did ?" he laughed.

"You stayed as long as possible ?" "Well, it seemed to me so--but I hadn't 'interests.' You'll have them--on a great scale.

It's the country for interests," said Charlotte.
"If I had only had a few I doubtless wouldn't have left it." He waited an instant; they were still on their feet.

"Yours then are rather here ?" "Oh, mine!"-- the girl smiled.

"They take up little room, wherever they are." It determined in him, the way this came from her and what it somehow did for her-it determined in him a speech that would have seemed a few minutes before precarious and in questionable taste.