OCTOBER ROSES AND A YOUNG GIRL'S FACE The undertaker was certainly right about the road.

I think he must have had a flash of poetic insight into our taste in roads.

This was not, as a rule, understood by the friendly country folk.

Their ideas and ours as to what constituted a good road differed beyond the possibility of harmonizing.

When they said that a road was good they meant that it was straight, level, and businesslike.