11/37 "Now, look here Miss Boyce, will you come for a walk with me? I know I could, and you won't give me the chance; it's too bad." "Oh, you!" she said, with a little shrug; "what do you know about it? I have ten times more right to an opinion than you have. I can keep my head cool, and notice a hundred things that _you_ would never see. I come fresh into your country life, and the first thing that strikes me is that the whole machinery of law and order seems to exist for nothing in the world but to protect your pheasants! There are policemen--to catch poachers; there are magistrates--to try them. |