He would have leaped the fence instead of going round the stile.

He was away in London, doing well.

Paul would be working in Nottingham.

Now she had two sons in the world.

She could think of two places, great centres of industry, and feel that she had put a man into each of them, that these men would work out what SHE wanted; they were derived from her, they were of her, and their works also would be hers.