"This small space is as lovely as the large castle-garden used to be.

Your roses and mignonette, the cabbage, beans and beets, the little fountain in the corner are so charming! Your bench under the apple-tree looks most inviting." "Oh, Mr.Falcon, you are still as fond of joking as ever," Apollonie returned.

"So you think that my rose-beds are as fine as those up there used to be?
Indeed, who has ever seen the like of them or of my wonderful vegetable garden in the castle-grounds?
There has never been such an abundance of cauliflower and peas, such rows of bean-poles, such salad-beds.

What a delight their care was to me.

Such a garden will never be seen again.