I don't see why we can't find the value of
_x_ in the country as easily as in the city. They have had city and
school life, now let them see country life; the _x_ will stand for wide
experience at least."
"Jane likes it thus far," said I, "and I think she will continue; but I
don't feel so sure about Jack."
"You're as blind as a bat--or a man. Jane loves country life because
she's young and growing; but there's a subconscious sense which tells
her that she's simply fitting herself to be carried off by that handsome
giant, Jim Jarvis. She doesn't know it, but it's the truth all the same,
and it will come as sure as tide; and when it does come, her life will
be run into other moulds than we have made, no matter how carefully."
"I wonder where this modern Hercules is most vulnerable. I'll slay him
if I find him mousing around my Jane."
"You will slay nothing, Mr. Headman, and you know it; you will just take
what's coming to you, as others have done since the world was young."
"Well, I give fair warning; it's 'hands off Jane,' for lo, these many
years, or some one will be brewing 'harm tea' for himself.
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