"Then what should you do in London?"
"My dear, of the many hundred thousands who call London their home, very few have an office."
"But they have business of some kind?"
"That is a Boston notion. Did you ever observe, Thayer, that a Massachusetts man has no idea of life without business? It is the reason why he is in the world, to him; it never occurs to him that play might be occasionally useful. I declare! I believe they don't know the meaning of the word in America; it has dropped out, like a forgotten art."
"But, father," Dolly spoke up now, "if you are going to London, mother and I cannot possibly go to Sorrento."
"I don't quite see the logic of that."
"Why, we cannot be here in Italy quite alone."
"I'll leave you St. Leger to take care of you and bring you back; as he took you away."
"I should be very happy to fall in with that plan," said Lawrence slowly; "but I fear I cannot make it out. I have been making arrangements to go into Greece, seeing that I am so near it. And I may quite possibly spend another winter in Rome."
There was a pause, and when Mr. Copley spoke again there was another sound in his voice. It was not his will to betray it, but Dolly heard the chagrin and disappointment.