's notion of a Sabbatical year. She did not think it was so very droll; she even urged it seriously against him, as if she had now the authority of

his thought. "We could call it our Silver Wedding Journey, and go round

ly; and he had now the delicate responsib

would be our Silver Wedding Journey just as it would be my Sabbatical year-a

"Didn't you say a Sabbatical

; but it was a fig

Wedding Journey was a fi

t. Don't you suppose I should be glad too, if we could go ove

e now that you care

e done, anyway; so t

away from your editing, but you've let the time slip by without really trying to do anything; I don't call those little studies of yours in the magazine anything; and

he stalest ki

could look at it as a sort of dispassionate witness, and treat it hu

fiction would kill the travel, the travel would kill the fiction; t

at is better

and he yielded to another fancy. "We might imagine coming upon our former selves

tical idea," she said with a sort of provi

admitted. "How young w

really saw Europe, then; I was too inexperienced, too ignorant, too simple. I would like to go, just to make sure that I had

ple who actually hadn't been before-carry them all through Euro

d. "You couldn't!

ty or seventy mill

e millions you don't kno

so sure

magine them, you couldn'

sting ones hav

ome of that sort over there. I believe I would rather

I know you could get

could have them spend their Sunday afternoons going aboard the different boats, and looking up their accommodations. I could have them sail, in imagination, and discover an imaginary Europe,

said Mrs. March, "and if you don't want to ta

talk about our Silv

t to tease and I am no

to win her back to good-humor. He asked her if she would not like to go over to Hoboken and look at one of the Hanseatic