If you want to see Parks, you'd best come, for I'm going." "Is that the family tomb yonder, where you found me asleep ?" was the unexpected reply to her speech, as the boy quietly followed her, not at all daunted by her manner.
"Yes, and that reminds me to ask how you got in, and why you were napping there, instead of doing your errand properly ?" "I leaped the fence and stopped to rest before presenting myself, Miss Hester" was the cool answer, accompanied by a short laugh as he confessed his trespass.
"You look as if you'd had a long walk; where are you from ?" "London." "Bless the boy! It's fifty miles away." "So my shoes show; but it's a pleasant trip in summer time." "But why did you walk, child! Had you no money ?" "Plenty, but not for wasting on coaches, when my own stout legs could carry me.

I took a two days' holiday and saved my money for better things." "I like that," said Hester, with an approving nod.

"You'll get on, my lad, if that's your way, and I'll lend a hand, for laziness is my abomination, and one sees plenty nowadays." "Thank you.

That's friendly, and I'll prove that I am grateful.

Please tell me, is my lady ill ?" "Always delicate since Sir Richard died." "How long ago was that ?" "Ten years or more." "Are there no young gentlemen in the family ?" "No, Miss Lillian is an only child, and a sweet one, bless her!" "A proud little lady, I should say." "And well she may be, for there's no better blood in England than the Trevlyns, and she's heiress to a noble fortune." "Is that the Trevlyn coat of arms ?" asked the boy abruptly, pointing to a stone falcon with the motto ME AND MINE carved over the gate through which they were passing.
"Yes.