If we go out and meet him, we'll have to ask him to stay." The approach to houses in the bush is generally by way of the yard where the horses arrive, and it is very unusual for anyone, except a stranger making a formal visit, to be allowed to find their way round to the front.
Blake rode up and gave his horse to the horse-boy.

"Put him in the stable for a while," he said.

"I may want him again." Then he went round to the front door and asked for Mrs.Gordon.
"I have come to see Miss Grant on very important business," he said when the old lady came in.

"Would you ask her if she would see me ?" The old lady was in a quandary.

She had heard all the rumours that were going about, but she knew that they had been kept from Mary Grant, and she thought that if Blake meant to talk business he might shock or startle the girl terribly.
"Mr.Pinnock the lawyer is here," she said.