Do you know really that nothing would make me happier than to hear or think nothing about duty, to just know that I had come back to England to stay, and that you were English, and that we were going to live just the sort of life I pictured to myself that two people could live so happily over here, without too much ambition, without intrigue, simply and honestly.

I am a little weary of cities and courts, Francis.

To-night more than ever England seems to appeal to me, to remind me that I am one of her daughters." "Are you trying me, Anna ?" he asked hoarsely.
"Trying you?
Of course not!" she answered.

"I am speaking to you just simply and naturally, because you are the one person in the world to whom I may speak like that." "Then let's drop it, both of us!" he exclaimed, holding her arm tightly to his.

"Courts and cities can do without you, and Selingman can do without me.