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`` The doctor says he 's been overworking , '' continued his father , `` and that he ought to try a year 's outdoor life and sea air . If you ask me , I should say he 's overdone a good many things besides work -- '' he threw the boy a defiant , malicious glance , rather like a child who gets a thrust into an elder -- `` but Walland Marsh is as good a cure for over-play as for over-work . Not much to keep him up late hereabouts , is there , Miss Godden ? '' `` I reckon it 'll be twelve o'clock before any of us see our pillows to-night , '' said Joanna . `` Tut ! Tut I What terrible ways we 're getting into , just when I 'm proposing the place as a rest-cure . How do you feel , Miss Godden , being the only woman guest ? ''