"You shall choose everything for your own rooms--as I told you my wife should--from the best looms and workshops in the world. And then when we come home we will take a house somewhere while we superintend the fitting up of our own. "And finally, we will give a brilliant ball or something, by way of housewarming, and settle down to domestic life. "Now is not this a charming programme? I am sure you will think so--indeed you _must_, for I have set my heart upon it. "Pray write at once, dear love, and give me leave to put matters in train. Do you know you have been away four days and I have only had a post-card to tell me you arrived safely! That is not how you are going to treat me, I hope. I know there is a daily mail from Adelonga, and (though I repudiate post-cards) I don't care what sort of scribble you send so long as you write constantly. Remember what I told you about that. And remember your _promise_. "And now, good-night, my sweetest Rachel. Sleep well, darling, and dream of me, "Your faithful lover, "GRAHAM KINGSTON." MISS FETHERSTONHAUGH _to_ MR. KINGSTON. "My dearest Graham, "I am afraid you will think I ought to have written to you before, but I have been so much engaged ever since I arrived that I really have not had an opportunity. "Mr. Thornley is always showing me about the place, or the children are wanting me to have a walk with them, or my cousin sends for me to her room to see the baby; so that I may say I have scarcely a moment to call my own until bedtime comes, and then I am much too sleepy to write--the effect of the country air, I suppose. I am enjoying myself excessively. "The weather is lovely, and this is certainly the most delightful place. It is a regular old bush house, which has been added to in every direction. "The rooms are low, and straggle about anyhow; there is no front door--or, rather, there are several; and it has shingle roofs and weatherboard walls (though all the outhouses are brick and stone, and Mr. Thornley is going to build a new house presently, which I think is _such_ a pity.) "My own room has a canvas ceiling, which flaps up and down when the wind is high: and most of the floors are of that dark, rough-sawn native wood of olden times, which makes it necessary that the best carpets should have drugget, or some kind of padding under them. But, oh, how exquisitely the whole house is kept inside and out. "The drawing-room is _much_ prettier than ours at Toorak; because Mr. Thornley has travelled a great deal at odd times, and collected beautiful things, and seems to have good taste, as well as plenty of money. There are quantities of pictures everywhere; he is very fond of pictures.