I have a letter from Acton.

There seems to be some uncertainty developing in one or two business quarters.

I thought I'd see for myself." "Are you worrying ?" "About what ?" "About the Shoshone Securities Company ?" "Not exactly worrying." She shook her head, but said nothing more.
During February the work on the Cardross estate developed sufficiently to become intensely interesting to the family.

A vast circular sunken garden, bewitchingly formal, and flanked by a beautiful terrace and balus trade of coquina, was approaching completion between the house and an arm of the lagoon.

The stone bridge over the water remained unfinished, but already, across it, miles of the wide forest avenue stretched straight away, set at intervals by carrefours centred with fountain basins from which already tall sparkling columns of water tumbled up into the sunshine.
But still the steam jets puffed up above the green tree-tops; and the sickening whine of the saw-mill, and the rumble of traction engines over rough new roads of shell, and the far racket of chisel and hammer on wood and stone continued from daylight till dark.
Every day brought to Hamil new questions, new delays, vexations of lighting, problems of piping and drainage.