"He has, I'm afraid. And it's making him fall short of his usual sense here and there."
"A man full of sense, however."
"So I've always found him, and full of human kindness also. I've a lot to thank him for—a very good friend to me. But a few days agone I gave notice, because I'm going farther afield before I'm too old, and he took it very bad indeed."
"My! You going too? Where?"
"To Australia. I want to see a bit of life and start fresh."
"And Joe didn't like it?"
"No; but he'll easily find a new cowman. There's nothing to get so savage about that I can see."
"He'd come to look at you as part of his show. No doubt, falling on his other troubles—— But he knows where to look for comfort I should hope. After all, it's but a passing thing. I always say that we who live in a Vale ought to know what a vale means. Life's gone a thought too flowing and easy with Joe. This is all meant to make him think of Beyond."
"Thought of the next world don't make trouble anything less than trouble."
"It ought then."