No "With your leave" or "By your leave"! The price fixed, Canadians sent down to cut, and a light railway built from the woods to the station to carry the timber, before you could say "Jack Robinson."' 'You think the price these people offer is a fair one ?' She pointed to the draft contract.
'Excellent! The Squire won't get nearly as much from the Government.' 'What one might do with some of it for the estate!' said Elizabeth, looking up, her blue eyes dancing in the lamplight.
'Rebuild half the cottages ?' said the other, smiling, as he rose.

'A village club-house, a communal kitchen, a small holdings scheme--all the things we've talked about?
Oh yes, you could do all that and more.

The Squire doesn't know what he possesses.' 'Well, I'll take the papers to him,' said Elizabeth, holding out her hands for them.

'I may perhaps catch him to-night' A little more business talk, and the agent departed.

Then Elizabeth dreamily--still cogitating a hundred things--touched an electric bell.