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-- just think of it ! '' And so , with the breath of this new enthusiasm filling their souls , a new bubble of hope and gladness was floated , and again the two fell to planning , and `` supposing , '' the rose-glow once more lightening up the peaks . For days nothing else was talked of . An onslaught was at once made on Garry 's office , two doors below Mrs. Hicks , for photographs , plans of bungalows , shanties , White Mountain lean-tos , and the like , and as quickly tucked under Ruth 's arm and carried off , with only the permission of the office boy , -- Garry himself being absent owing to some matters connected with a big warehouse company in which he was interested , the boy said , and which took him to New York on the early train and did not allow his return sometimes , until after midnight . These plans were spread out under the lamp on the sitting-room table , the two studying the details , their heads together , MacFarlane sitting beside them reading or listening , -- the light of the lamp falling on his earnest , thoughtful face , -- Jack consulting him now and then as to the advisability of further extensions , the same being two rooms shingled inside and out , with an annex of bark and plank for Ruth 's horse , and a kitchen and laundry and no end of comforts , big and little , -- all to be occupied whenever their lucky day would come and the merry bells ring out the joyful tidings of their marriage . Nor was this all this particularly radiant bubble contained . Not only was there to be a big open fireplace built of stone , and overhead rafters of birch , the bark left on and still glistening , -- but there were to be palms , ferns , hanging baskets , chintz curtains , rugs , pots of flowers , Chinese lanterns , hammocks , easy chairs ; and for all Jack knew , porcelain tubs , electric bells , steam heat and hot and cold water , so enthusiastic had Ruth become over the possibilities lurking in the 15 X 20 log-hut which Jack proposed to throw together as a shelter in his exile .