A famous gardener from Upminster renowned through all the West had come over and given his personal attention to the matter, and next year wonderful herbaceous borders would spring up on all sides.

Mr.Johnson's visits and his council, though at first resented, had at length grown a source of pure delight to Halcyone; she reveled in the blooms of the delicate begonias and salvias and other blossoms which she had never seen before.
Mr.Carlyon, although desiring solitude, appreciated a beautiful and cultivated one, and the orchard house was now becoming a very comfortable bachelor's home.
The day was much cooler than it had been of late.

There was a fresh breeze though the sun shone.

John Derringham wandered down to the apple tree and thence to the gap, and through it and on into the park.

His walk was for pleasure, and aimless as to destination, and presently he sat down under a low-spreading oak and looked at the house--La Sarthe Chase.