Don't you think you would be more contented, happier, if you were to try to arrange for a few--a few demonstrations or lectures over here, as you at first intended?
I know that you must find having nothing to do such a strain upon you," she added.
It was perhaps by accident that her eyes were fixed upon the glass which the professor was carrying to his lips.

He set it down at once.
"My child," he said, in a low tone, "I understand you." "No, no," she insisted, "I didn't mean that, but you are always better when you are working.

A man like you," she went on, a little wistfully, "should not waste his talents." He sighed.
"You are perhaps right, my child," he admitted.

"I will go and see my agents to-morrow.

Up till now," he went on, "I have refused all offers.
I have felt that Elizabeth, the care of Elizabeth in her peculiar position, demanded my whole attention.