And Aunt Felicia came over to fetch me for the summer vacations and brought me here"-- Damaris pointed across the tide-way to the river frontage, including with one sweeping gesture the whole demesne of The Hard from the deep lane on the one hand, opening funnel-like upon the shore, past sea-wall--topped at the corner by pink plumed tamarisk, the small twin cannons and pyramid of ball--the lawn and irregular white house overlooking it, backed and flanked by rich growth of trees, to a strip of sandy warren and pine scrub on the other, from out which a line of some half-dozen purple stemmed, red branched Scotch firs, along with the grey stone built Inn and tarred wooden cottages on the promontory beyond, showed through a dancing shimmer of heat haze, against the land-locked, blue and silver waters of Marychurch Haven.
"I did not like being here at all at first," she told him.

"I thought it a mean place only fit for quite poor people to live in.

The house seemed so pinched and naked without any galleries or verandahs.

And I was afraid because we had so few servants and neither door-keepers or soldiers.

I could not believe that in England there is so little need for protection against disaffected persons and thieves.