Wind and weather and disease played the devil with me.

I lost the little I had and came back to begin over again--on nothing--here!" And he waved his hand over the park with its sward and coppice and bracken and the deer cropping in the late afternoon gold.
"To begin what again ?" said Betty.

It was an extraordinary enough thing, seen in the light of conventions, that they should stand and talk like this.

But the spark had kindled between eye and eye, and because of it they suddenly had forgotten that they were strangers.
"You are an American, so it may not seem as mad to you as it would to others.

To begin to build up again, in one man's life, what has taken centuries to grow--and fall into this." "It would be a splendid thing to do," she said slowly, and as she said it her eyes took on their colour of bluebells, because what she had seen had moved her.