But I cannot understand them, and I am not easy in my mind about them." "What can you not understand ?" "Their reasons for their conduct.

But you shall have it all just as it occurred.

When I came down, Mr.Rucastle met me here and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches.

It is, as he said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather.

There are grounds round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about a hundred yards from the front door.