And yet there was something else in it, some quality of nature which did not alone suggest the omnipotence of wealth, but another thing which might be even stronger and therefore carried conviction.

He who had raged and clenched his hands in the face of his knowledge of the aspect his dream would have presented if he had revealed it to the ordinary practical mind, felt that a point of view like this was good for him.

There was in it stimulus for a fleeting moment at least.
"That is a good idea," he answered.

"Where should you begin ?" She replied quite seriously, though he could have imagined some girls rather simpering over the question as a casual joke.
"One would begin at the fences," she said.

"Don't you think so ?" "That is practical." "That is where I shall begin at Stornham," reflectively.
"You are going to begin at Stornham ?" "How could one help it?
It is not as large or as splendid as this has been, but it is like it in a way.