I've only been here about a twelve-month.

I was took on because I'm getting on in years an' can't ask much wage." "Can you spare time to take me through the gardens and show me things ?" Yes, he could do it.

In truth, he privately welcomed an opportunity offering a prospect of excitement so novel.

He had shown more flourishing gardens to other young ladies in his past years of service, but young ladies did not come to Stornham, and that one having, with such extraordinary unexpectedness arrived, should want to look over the desolation of these, was curious enough to rouse anyone to a sense of a break in accustomed monotony.

The young lady herself mystified him by her difference from such others as he had seen.