"I'm going, as I told you, to try Toppings. That's what I have to look
to. My mother will be glad my chance is over."
"She wishes you to settle down?"
"Yes, of course. I could never have anything said about the past--and
_her_, from my mother's point of view; and knowing that she felt so
strongly, has made a sort of separation. But I shall ask her if she
likes to bring the girls to Toppings. The life there would suit her."
"But, Lucy," said Sylvester, "why should you give up the white bears
that you had set your heart on? Two years hence, as you said, is quite
time enough for you to settle down at Toppings."