Do you realise that I've been here two months, Jean ?" "Does it seem so short to you ?" "In a way it does; the days have passed so pleasantly.

And yet I seem to have been here all my life; I feel so much a part of Priorsford, so akin to the people in it.

It must be the Border blood in my veins.

My mother loved her own country dearly.

I have heard my aunt say that she never felt at home at Bidborough or Mintern Abbas.