This wood joins the park, and there is a public right of way across the park to the Lidford road, so the gate is always open.

We can't waste our walk, and I know Sir David quite well enough to ask him to let you see the pictures, if he should happen to be at home." "I should like it of all things," said Gilbert eagerly.

"My friend John Saltram knows this Sir David Forster, and he talked of being down here at this time: I forgot all about it till you spoke of Heatherly just now.

I have a knack of forgetting things now-a-days." "I wonder that you should forget anything connected with Mr.Saltram, Gilbert," said Marian; "that Mr.Saltram of whom you think so much.

I cannot tell you how anxious I am to see what kind of person he is; not handsome--you have confessed as much as that." "Yes, Marian, I admit the painful fact.