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`` How 'll we get that sunken garden out , then , father ? '' I asked , and I saw the life and color come back to his face in a flood of humor . `` We might try filling it in , '' he answered , and then we both laughed at ourselves , with Dabney joining in . After dinner father and I sat out on the porch in the soft , warm breeze that waved a misty spring moonlight around us , and talked garden until after ten o'clock . He was brilliant and delightful , but three times he made trips to ice bowl and decanter on the sideboard . `` It will be a great relief and happiness to me if Nickols does sanction and set the seal of artistic approval upon our plans , '' he said , with feverish but happy eyes . `` You see , Nickols will represent the cosmopolitan in judgment upon the normally developed insular .