"I answered an advertisement this morning, but we could not come to terms. Marjorie, what you say about Middlefield is worth thinking of."
"That is why I said it," she said archly.
"Would _you _like that life better?"
"Better for you?"
"No, better for yourself."
"I am there already, you know," with rising color.
"I believe I will write to father and tell him I will take his kindness into serious consideration."
"There is no need of haste."
"He will want to begin to make plans. He is a great planner. Marjorie! I just thought of it. We will rent Linnet's house this summer—or board with her, and superintend the building of our own, Do you agree to that?"
"You haven't taken it into serious consideration yet."