Of course it is not very large, but as we have not got very many belongings that is all the better; and the garden is small but extremely pretty and wild, and the kitchen is very convenient; really I quite wonder how the people who built it could have made it all so comfortable.

You see there are one--two--the pantry, the kitchen and two rooms on the ground floor and plenty of room upstairs for everybody, and as for the sun! it streams into all the windows at once from morning till night.

And such a pretty view, too, of that old gate opposite--where does it lead to, Mrs.Ambrose?
It is so very pretty." "It leads to the park and the Hall," answered Mrs.Ambrose.
"Oh--" Mrs.Goddard's tone changed.

"But nobody lives there ?" she asked suddenly.
"Oh no--it is in Chancery, you know." "What--what is that, exactly ?" asked Mrs.Goddard, timidly.

"Is there a young heir waiting to grow up--I mean waiting to take possession ?" "No.