I do hope they won't be watching for us.

It will be ever so much easier if I can just walk in before they get any kind of a shock, don't you know." Rex did not tell her which was the house until they came to the two tall sentinel poplars at the entrance to the drive.

Kit caught the murmur of the waves as they broke on the shore below and lifted her chin eagerly.
"Oh, I like it," she cried.

"This is it, isn't it?
Isn't it a dear, drowsy dreamful place?
I only hope they'll let me stay.".