One can but hope that their married life will be passed on the same side
of the shelter. If he persists in facing the sea, and she in staring at
the villas--well, they will live most of Ibsen's plays!
But at least they will be modern.
And so the tee-to-tum, thought of pathetically by Burnham on a memorable
occasion, spins round, and the sea and the villas are the two aspects of
life.
* * * * *
Transcriber's note:
Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained.
Duplicate title headings at the beginning of the book and before each
story have been removed.
The following corrections were made to the text:
p. 267: missing period added (danced merrily.)
p. 325: single close quote to double close quote ("I hope you will not
be bored,")
p. 328: healthly to healthy (fresh and healthy interest)
p. 331: be to he ("A little more restrained," he said.)
p. 349: paragraph break removed after comma (and continued, "I doubt if
any one)
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