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At this time of your lives it is important that you act. I am telling you that of the houses in your mind it really makes little difference which one you choose. Neither house is perfect. You would find yourselves quite hampered in such an idealistically perfect environment. You need some give-and-take (period).

Give us time.... The Foster Street house has a certain decadence. Do you follow me?

Give us time.... The hill house represents the future, and the contemporary qualities of it. I suggest, and only suggest, that that be your choice—because it is the most daring of the ventures for you—and because the hill will give you a view in many more ways than one. (And this when we haven’t been inside of hill house. Didn’t get inside until February 21, when we signed offer to purchase. See house file.)

Give us time.... When you live in a house that belongs conspicuously to another age, you are to some extent avoiding the contemporary nature of life. Ruburt may find himself furnishing the place more formally than another, yet the open quality of the air is the kind of air that you do not hide in.

On the house: now Ruburt could quite cleverly see Dr. Sam as he tried to shut nature out, and be at the same time relatively opaque in understanding his feelings toward the Foster Street house—his own feelings.