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Days like these will do you good, especially if your face
and manner reveal that you can be as truly at rest as Nature."
"Yet what changes may soon pass over the placid scene!"
"Yes, but don't think of them."
"Well, I won't--not now. Yes, you are becoming very penetrating. I
am not exerting myself in the least to give you a pleasant time. I
am just selfishly and lazily content."
"That fact gives me so much more than content that it makes me
happy."
"Hobart, you are the most unselfish man I ever knew."
"Nonsense!"
They had reached their picnic-ground--the edge of a grove whose
bright-hued foliage still afforded a grateful shade. The horse was
unharnessed and picketed so that he might have a long range for
grazing. Then Martine brought the provision basket to the foot of
a great oak, and sat down to wait for Helen, who had wandered away
in search of wild flowers. At last she came with a handful of
late-blooming closed gentians.
"I thought these would make an agreeable feature in your lunch."
"Oh, you are beginning to exert yourself.


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