22/27 Have you any notion to whom it belongs, or who lives there ?" "An old house in that lane across the way ?" the girl said, reflecting. There's not many houses there; it's rather a lonesome kind of place. Do you mean a big old-fashioned house standing far back in a garden ?" "Yes; that must be the place I want to know about." "It must be the Grange, surely. It was a gentleman's house once; but there's only a bailiff lives there now. The farm belongs to some gentleman down in Midlandshire, a baronet; I can't call to mind his name at this moment, though I have heard it often enough. |