You'll be wanting to modernize and make over this house, you know, to suit a young wife." "Nonsense, Gracie; no such thing!" said John.

"Do you suppose I want to leave all the past associations of my life, and strip my home bare of all pleasant memorials, because I bring a little wife here?
Why, the very idea of a wife is somebody to sympathize in your tastes; and Lillie will love and appreciate all these dear old things as you and I do.

She has such a sympathetic heart! If you want to make me happy, Gracie, stay here, and let us live, as near as may be, as before." "So we will, John," said Grace, so cheerfully that John considered the whole matter as settled, and rushed upstairs to write his daily letter to Lillie..