when she enquired how he meant to spend his afternoon, he had answered paradoxically: \"Oh, I think for a change I'll just save it instead of spending it—\" and once, when she and May had had to go on a long-postponed round of afternoon calls, he had confessed to having lain all the afternoon under a rock on the beach below the house.
\"Newland never seems to look ahead,\" Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter;
when she enquired how he meant to spend his afternoon, he had answered paradoxically: \"Oh, I think for a change I'll just save it instead of spending it—\" and once, when she and May had had to go on a long-postponed round of afternoon calls, he had confessed to having lain all the afternoon under a rock on the beach below the house.
\"Newland never seems to look ahead,\" Mrs. Welland once ventured to complain to her daughter;
