'I shall have a crow to pluck with that Mr.
Turner for saying it was only eight.

And how far to the Grange ?' "'Which Grange, Miss?
There are two or three hereabouts.' "Mary named the family it belonged to.
"'Oh it is quite seven miles from here, though not above two from East Hornham.' "'Seven and two make nine,' said Mary.

'Why didn't you bring us here past the Grange?
It is a shorter way,' she added to the driver, as we got into the carriage again.
"The man touched his hat respectfully, and replied that he had brought us round the other way that we might see more of the country.
"We laughed to ourselves at the idea of seeing the country, shut up in a close carriage and hardly daring to let the tips of our noses peep out to meet the bitter, biting cold.

Besides, what was there to see?
It was a flat, bare country, telling plainly of the near neighbourhood of the sea, and with its present mantle of snow, features of no kind were to be discerned.

Roads, fields, and all were undistinguishable.
"'I wonder he knows his way,' we said to each other more than once, and as we drove on farther we could not resist a slight feeling of alarm as to the weather.