Ethel joined them with affected high spirits and random explanations and excuses, but both women no-ticed her radiant face and exulting air.

"The garden is such a heavenly place," she said ecstatically, and Mrs Rawdon remarked, as she rose and put her cup on the table, "Girls need chaperons in gardens if they need them anywhere.

I made Nicholas Rawdon a promise in Mossgill Garden I've had to spend all my life since trying to keep." "Tyrrel and I have been sitting under the plane tree watching the bees.
They are such busy, sensible creatures." "They are that," answered Mrs.Rawdon.

"If you knew all about them you would wonder a bit.

My father had a great many; he studied their ways and used to laugh at the ladies of the hive being so like the ladies of the world.