He stood for a moment and looked, but said not a word to the men.

They gazed at him but evidently did not know him.

How should they know him,--him, who was so seldom there, and who when there never showed himself about the place?
Then he went farther afield from the house and came across more and more men.

A great ha-ha fence had been made, enclosing on three sides a large flat and turfed parallelogram of ground, taken out of the park and open at one end to the gardens, containing, as he thought, about an acre.

"What are you doing this for ?" he said to one of the labourers.