It was connected both with the main living-rooms of the house, and with a side entrance from the park, by which visitors on estate matters were admitted.
A man was sitting waiting for Miss Bremerton.

He was the new tenant of the derelict farm, on the Holme Wood side of the estate, and he had come to report on the progress which had been made in clearing and ploughing the land, and repairing the farm-buildings.

He was a youngish man, a sergeant in a Warwickshire regiment, who had been twice wounded in the war, and was now discharged.

As the son of an intelligent farmer, he had had a good agricultural training, and it was evident that his enthusiasms and those of the Squire's new 'business-secretary' were running in harness.
The new agent, Captain Dell, also a discharged Territorial, who had lost an arm in the war, watched the scene between the incoming tenant and Elizabeth, with a shrewd pair of eyes, through which there passed occasional gleams of amusement or surprise.

He was every day making further acquaintance with the lady who was apparently to be his chief, but he was well aware that he was only at the beginning of his lesson.