17/17 The hinges are on one trunk and the catch on the other. Their boughs form an arch overhead." "Oh, I'm so glad! I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve. Well, after that, there's no use asking you if there's a brook anywhere near. THAT would be expecting too much." "But there IS a brook--and it actually cuts across one corner of the garden." "Then," said Anne, with a long sigh of supreme satisfaction, "this house you have found IS my house of dreams and none other.". |