"I think you're quite right." "As my mother likes--the girl I want to marry," said Peter, "I hoped it would make everything straight.

But she seems quite miserable at the thought of settling down quietly in the Dower House." "Ah! in the Dower House," said John.

"Then you will not be wanting her to live here with you, after all ?" "It's the same thing, though," said Peter, "as I've tried to explain to her.

She'd be only a few yards off; and she could still be looking after the place and my interests, and all that, as she does now.

And whenever I was down here, I should see her constantly; you know how devoted I am to my mother.