He nodded.
"Where are you taking me ?" he asked presently, as they passed through the gate.
"To my little house by the Three Trees.

I've got things I'd like to show you, and there's some things I'd like to say.

You are a big hulk of a man, and I'm nobody, but yet I've been close to you and yours in my time--that's so, for sure." "You've been close to me and mine in your time, eh?
I didn't know that." "No, you didn't know it.

Nobody knew it--I've kept it to myself.

Your family wasn't all first-class--but no." They soon reached the plain board-house, with the well-laid foundation of stone, by the big Three Trees.