We kept the men pretty hard at work, I can tell you, carrying up the earth.

Richards is at work now, and I bet him five rupees that he and Herbert don't drive as far as we did." "There is not much use in betting now, Mr.Wilson," Isobel said sadly.
"No, I suppose not, Miss Hannay; but it gives a sort of interest to one's work.

I have blistered my hands horribly, but I suppose they will get hard in a day or two." "I wish we could work at something," Isobel said.

"Now that we have finished with the bags and bandages, the time seems very long; the only thing there is to do is to play with the children and try to keep them good; it is fortunate there is a bit of garden for them to play in." "It is not much of a garden, Miss Hannay.

We had something like a garden when I was a boy at home; the governor's is a jolly old rectory, with a splendid garden.