He was entering a park, evidently of wide extent, and finely wooded.

The road through it had long fallen out of repair, and was largely grass-grown.

A few sheep were pasturing on it, and a few estate cottages showed here and there.

Sir Henry looked about him with quick eyes.

He understood that the Inspection Sub-Committee, constituted under the Corn Production Act, and on the look-out for grass-land to put under the plough, had recommended the ploughing up of all this further end of Mannering Park.