"Do let us go around by the boundary," Miss Lutworth said when they got through the Wendover gates.

"I long to see even the park of that exquisite old lady; it must look quite different to anybody else's, and I feel I want an adventure!" So they struck in towards the haw-haw--the four walking almost abreast.
When they came to beyond the copse, after it touched the Professor's garden, they paused and took in the view.

It was unspeakably beautiful from there, rolling away towards the splendid old house, which could only just be distinguished through the giant trees, not yet in leaf.

And suddenly, hardly twenty yards from them across the gulf, coming from the gap in Mr.Carlyon's hedge, they saw a tall and very slender mouse-colored figure, as Halcyone emerged on her homeward way--she had run down to see Cheiron when her duties with Miss Roberta were over, and was now going back to lunch.
"Good morning!" called John Derringham, and the four advanced to the very edge of their side, and Halcyone turned and also bordered hers, while she bowed serenely.
"Isn't it a day of the gods!" he continued.

"And may I from across this Stygian lake (there was a little water collected in the haw-haw here from the recent rains) introduce Miss Lutworth to you--and Miss Clinker and Lord Freynault?
Miss Halcyone La Sarthe." Everyone bowed, and Halcyone smiled her sweet, grave smile.
"We would love to jump over--or you come to us," Cora Lutworth said with her frank, friendly charm.