"I've known it ever since I was a boy, when it belonged to my dear friend Thomas Bradley.

And I hope you'll love it as much as I do, when you know it better." "Bradley must have been a fool to give this place to Jane," said Uncle John, reflectively.
"He was in love, sir," observed the other, and they both smiled.

Then the lawyer turned to Kenneth.

"How are things going ?" he asked.

"Have the girls bothered you much, as yet ?" "No," said the boy.