“Perhaps he’ll like them better on that account.”
“I think I should. It would be like having your memory illustrated.”
“Are you going to do the rockery in the garden?”
“If the frost has left anything.”
“It must be placed in just the right spot for there’s a lot of it left. I passed it early to-day and it looked almost as pretty as if it were summer.”
“Dorothy certainly made a success of that.”
“It was an afterthought, too.”
“I believe the chief reason it has been so lovely is that it was placed in a natural position. The rocks look as if they ought to be just where they are.”
“Mrs. Schermerhorn’s rockery looks as if she had said, ‘Lo, I’ll have a rockery,’ and then she stuck it right in the middle of her lawn where no collection of rocks has been for twenty years.”
“And she has hot-house ferns in it!”