A sense of homeliness was given by a number of Alderney cattle and young hunters grazing in the park on both sides of the avenue.

Beechcroft had a reputation in metropolitan sale-rings.

Its two-year-olds were always in demand.
"We will leave the conveyance here," announced Brett "I prefer to walk to the house." The hotel groom went to the horse's head.

He did not hear the barrister's question: "I suppose both you and your cousin quitted Mrs.Eastham's house by that side-door and entered the park through the wicket ?" "Yes," assented Hume, "though I fail to see why you should hit upon the side-door rather than the main entrance." "Because the ball-room is built out at the back.

It was originally a granary.