But to answer you: well, I'm always looking ahead, and somehow I usually see about how things are coming out." "Yes," he said.

"I suppose most of us do; at least it seems as if we did, because we so seldom feel surprised by the way they do come out.
But maybe that's only because life isn't like a play in a theatre, and most things come about so gradually we get used to them." "No, I'm sure I can see quite a long way ahead," she insisted, gravely.
"And it doesn't seem to me as if our summer evenings could last very long.

Something'll interfere--somebody will, I mean--they'll SAY something----" "What if they do ?" She moved her shoulders in a little apprehensive shiver.

"It'll change you," she said.

"I'm just sure something spiteful's going to happen to me.