Any deviation that might prolong our walk was welcome, and, as to the place--why, all places were alike to me if only she were by my side.

Besides, the churchyard was really of some interest, since it was undoubtedly the "exciting cause" of the obnoxious paragraph two of the disputed will.

I accordingly expressed a desire to make its acquaintance, and we crossed to the entrance to Gray's Inn Road.
"Do you ever try," she asked, as we turned down the dingy thoroughfare, "to picture to yourself familiar places as they looked a couple of hundred years ago ?" "Yes," I answered, "and very difficult I find it.

One has to manufacture the materials for reconstruction, and then the present aspect of the place will keep obtruding itself.

But some places are easier to reconstitute than others." "That is what I find," said she.