Did they show you the horses ?" Shy and reserved in novel surroundings, he was rather too much at his ease amid socially familiar things, and now said lightly that he had not seen the stables.

"Really, Aunt Ann, I prefer to read or to look at these interesting Indian relics." "Ask your uncle about them," she said, "but you will find out that horses are important in this household." She left him with the conviction that James Penhallow was, on the whole, right as to the educational needs of this lad.
After lunch his uncle said, "Leila will show you about the place.

You will want to see the horses, of course, and the dogs." "And my guinea pigs," added Leila.
He took no interest in either, and the dogs somewhat alarmed him.

His cousin, a little discouraged, led him away into the woods where the ancient pines stood snow laden far apart with no intrusion between them of low shrubbery.

Leila was silent, half aware that he was hard to entertain, and then mischievously wilful to give this indifferent cousin a lesson.