"
"You mean you will settle down until you are unsettled again."
"What will unsettle me?"
"What unsettled you now?"
"Circumstances."
"Circumstances will keep on being in existence as long as we are in
existence. I never forget a motto I chose for my birthday once on a time.
'The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.'"
"He commands us to fight, sometimes."
"And then we must fight. You seem to be undergoing some struggles now.
Have you any opening here?"
"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."
"Will it make any difference to you--my decision? Will you share my
life--any way?"
Prue ran in at that instant, Linnet following. Hollis arose and walked
around among the books. Prue squeezed herself into Marjorie's broad
chair; and Linnet dropped herself on the hassock at Marjorie's feet, and
laid her head in Marjorie's lap.
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