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He had indicated what he considered the topographical location for a house -- stood on it facing the valley , and stepped the distance suitably far away to set a garage and figured on a short private road down to the highway . He very plainly was deeply prepossessed with a location John Gilman blamed himself for not having found first . Certainly nature had here grown and walled a dream garden in which to set a house of dreams . So , past midnight , Gilman stood in the sunshine , looking at the face of the girl he had asked to marry him and who had said that she would ; and a small doubt crept into his heart , and a feeling that perhaps life might be different for him if Peter Morrison decided to come to Lilac Valley to build his home . Then the sunlight faded , night closed in , but as he went his homeward way John Gilman was thinking , thinking deeply and not at all happily . CHAPTER VIII . The Bear Cat `` Friday 's child is loving and giving , But Saturday 's child must work for a living , '' Linda was chanting happily as she entered the kitchen early Saturday morning .