"Yes."
"Well, two or three words in that have set me thinking a great deal."
"What words?"
"That I am going to tell you presently. You know I shall not always care to live here in lodgings; it is a life I do not like, and it has cost me a great deal of thought where I should fix my home."
"You are free to choose anywhere?"
"Anywhere," answered Christina, sighing; then, checking the sigh, she added, "Where would you choose if you had all England before you?"
"Somewhere in the sweet country," said Nellie.
"I have thought of that. But there are some things which make me wish to live within easy reach of London; for one thing I want to be somewhere near all of you."
"Oh, we should be so glad!" said Nellie earnestly. "It would be the greatest pleasure."
"Can you suggest? Come, I want you to name a place."