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SEED-TIME.
What Fate does, let Fate answer for.
One afternoon Joseph had his wish.

Moreover he had it given to him even as he desired, which does not usually happen.

We are given a part, or the whole, so distorted that we fail to recognise it.
Joseph looked up from his work and saw Jocelyn coming into the bungalow garden.
He went out to meet her, putting on his coat as he went.
"How is Mr.Meredith ?" she asked at once.

Her eyes were very bright, and there was a sort of breathlessness in her manner which Joseph did not understand.
"He is a bit better, miss, thank you kindly.