“If we could do this,” she was saying, “it would satisfy my best ideals of a permanent home.”
“But, my dear Mrs. Robeson,” stammered the man of castles, “consider the location—the neighbourhood—the rural character of the surroundings.”
“I do,” she answered, still studying the plans. “I love them all—and the old home most of all. Ever since I knew”—how had she known? they wondered—“that a change of houses was a possible thing for us I have been homesick in anticipation of a change I couldn’t bear to think of. Yet I wondered if we ought to go. But if you can make this of the old home——”
She lifted to her husband an enthusiastic face. His eyes met hers in a long look in which each read deep into the mind of the other. Then Anthony Robeson, like a man who hears precisely what he most wants to hear, turned smiling to Cathcart.
“I think you’ve lost, Steve,” he said.
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