I'm afraid my education as far as local history is concerned has been shamefully neglected.

Do make good the deficiencies"-- smiling.
Garth laughed a little.
"Very well, I will.

I always have a kind of fellow-feeling for Friar Anselmo.

But I propose we investigate the tea-basket first." They established themselves beneath the shelter of a big boulder, Garth first spreading a rug which he had brought from the boat for Sara to sit on.

Then he unstrapped the tea-basket, and it became evident either that Mrs.Judson had a genius for assembling together the most fascinating little cakes and savoury sandwiches, accompanied by fragrant tea, hot from a thermos flask, or else that she had acted under instructions from some one to whom the cult of afternoon tea as sublimated by Rumpelmayer was not an unknown quantity.