She called to him.
"When is the family coming out from town, Andy ?" "Not this summer, Miss Lloyd," he answered.

"It'll be the first summer in twenty years that the Judge has missed.

He has taken a cottage at the seaside, and they're all going there.

The house will stay closed, just as you see it now, I reckon, for another year." "At the seashore!" she echoed.

"Not coming out!" She almost gasped, the news was so unexpected.