"It's lovely! You are so artistic! It must please your husband to have you so perfectly gowned."
"Oh, Arthur—as for one's husband, I simply can't imagine dressing for one man."
"I can," breathed the girl, her thoughts afield. But the sentiment was lost upon Eva.
"If I lived nine miles from nowhere I would dress and walk among the cow corrals or on the range for the cowboys—if there were no other men to admire me!"
"You say such dreadful things," Winifred answered, gently, "but I know you do not mean them."
"But I do!" wilfully.
"I have grown away from the East," the doctor was saying, when the ladies again listened. "I want more room than the crowded cities can give.
"'Room, room to turn 'round in,
To breathe and be free.'
"I fancy the Puritans wanted physical as well as religious freedom, if the truth were known." He mused; then suddenly:
"How can you make one who has never experienced it feel the West?"