middays
You can enlist help from outside if you can go boldly to veterinary surgeons and others , and say that whisky is your father 's weakness , and would they please oblige and gratify you by not offering him any . The winter wore away ; a very long winter , and a very cold one to those at the cottage who were used to the mild west country . But at last spring came ; late and with bitter winds and showers of sleet , but none the less wonderful , especially as one had to look to see the tentative signs of its coming . March in Marbridge used to mean violets and daffodils , tender green shoots and balmy middays . March here means days of pale clean light and great sweeping wind which chased grey clouds across a steely sky , and stirred the lust for fight and freedom in men 's minds and set them longing to be up and away and at battle with the world or the elements . This restlessness , which those who have lost it call divine , took possession of Julia that springtime , and a dissatisfaction with the simple life and its narrow limits beset her . Surely , she found herself asking , this was not the end of all things -- this cottage to be the limit of her life and ambitions ; her work to grow cabbages and eat them , to keep her father in the paths of temperance and sobriety , and to make Johnny 's closing days happy ?