As you have always spoken with pleasure of your old home, Clevedon, suppose we give up this house and go and live there ?' 'It is for you to decide.' 'I want to know whether you would have any objection.' 'I shall do as you wish.' 'No, that isn't enough.

The plan I have in mind is this.

I should take a good large house--no doubt rents are low in the neighbourhood--and ask your sisters to come and live with us.

I think it would be a good thing both for them and for you.' 'You can't be sure that they would agree to it.

You see that Virginia prefers her lodgings to living here.' Oddly enough, this was the case.