COMMUTER'S WIFE 83 



My nest is America, Evan's England, and the 

 interweaving of the two makes the most logical com- 

 bination possible. But why should I expect Evan 

 to move his building materials overseas to join mine 

 instead of the reverse ? Because of a fact in the 

 law, also of the joyous republic of Birdland, to which 

 I would call the attention of all conscientious women 

 with foreign husbands. // is the female who always 

 chooses the nesting site. 'Nature rules that the loca- 

 tion of the home is of more vital importance to her 

 whose life is of the home, and nests are also usually 

 located in the region of the best food supply there- 

 fore America ! 



Some of my guests expressed curiosity as to what 

 I should do for amusement in such a quiet place, 

 as if I had not been able to amuse myself in years 

 gone, and I foolishly unfolded to them in part my 

 garden hopes, which they straightway translated 

 according to their different temperaments to mean 

 everything from an Italian garden with terraces, 

 statues, a fountain, and clipped green walls to a 

 market garden wherein Evan was to raise cabbages 

 and afterward peddle them for a living. This last 

 notion went the rounds from the Village Gossip via 



