“O, we’ll have to manage it so as to be here when he comes down to see it.”

“We ought to arrange some plan.”

“Shall we let him know what has happened, or get him to come down here for something else?”

“O, we ought to get him to come for something else, and then his surprise will be all the greater.”

“But what else?”

“That we’ll have to think over.”

“We ought to make haste about it, then.”

“Yes, we ought to decide before the end of the week.”

“The end of the week! Nonsense! Why not to-day?”

“To-day?”