The vaporous sunlight softens all the outlines, hides the harsh features, and gives the landscape its dreamy, far-away, misty loveliness.

There seems to be no angles in the scene; field melts into field, and hedge into hedge, with here and there a ribbon of a road which seems to join them rather than to separate them.

The houses are of brick or of stone, many partly hidden under the climbing ivy or roses.
Chester Lawrence is accompanying Elder Malby eastward from London through Kent to Margate and Ramsgate on the coast.

Elder Malby is to attend to some Church duties, and Chester, by invitation, was glad to accompany him.

It was the young man's policy to keep in touch as much as possible with the elders and their work, and he was getting somewhat of the missionary spirit himself.