You will not feel so long, at any rate.

It is too bad Richard isn't here; you know him so much better than the rest of us.

But before he comes back, I am sure you will feel as much at home as he.

But here's the gate." There was a drive of perhaps an eighth of a mile from the gate to the house: the trees and hedge were thick, so that one saw little of the house from the road.

The grounds were well kept; there was a nice lawn, in front of the house, and some very fine old trees.