"We shall see what his attitude is," decided Miss Greeby, as she entered the Abbot's Wood, and delayed arranging her future plans until she fully understood his feelings towards the woman he had lost.

In the meantime, Lambert would want a comrade, and Miss Greeby was prepared to sink her romantic feelings, for the time being, in order to be one.
The forest--which belonged to Garvington, so long as he paid the interest on the mortgage--was not a very large one.

In the old days it had been of greater size and well stocked with wild animals; so well stocked, indeed, that the abbots of a near monastery had used it for many hundred years as a hunting ground.

But the monastery had vanished off the face of the earth, as not even its ruins were left, and the game had disappeared as the forest grew smaller and the district around became more populous.

A Lambert of the Georgian period--the family name of Lord Garvington was Lambert--had acquired what was left of the monastic wood by winning it at a game of cards from the nobleman who had then owned it.