"Bell has promised to bring me all the stuff we'll need with his new trailer." "Oh," said Grace, rather sharply, "I suppose this means you have given him the lease of the station coal yard?
No doubt he offered to bring the gravel before you agreed.

He's cunning and knew you wanted the terrace." "I can't remember if he offered before or afterwards," Osborn replied, with a touch of embarrassment.

"Anyhow, I don't think it's important, because I did not allow his offer to persuade me.

For all that, it's some satisfaction to get the work done cheap." Grace pondered.

She was intelligent; contact with her school companions had developed her character, and she had begun to understand Osborn since she came home.