I said something about filling them with love stories of the present day, and she laughed and said her mother was going there to farm the land and make some money out of it; and she added with a smile like sunshine, 'And I am going to try and help her.

That accounts for our walk this afternoon, Mr.Hatton,' and I told her I was that well pleased with the walk, I cared little for what had caused it.
"In a short time we came in sight of the big, lonely house and entered the long neglected park and garden.

I noticed at once a splendid belt of old ash-trees that shielded the house from the north and northeast winds.

I asked Jane if she knew who planted them, and she said she had heard that the builder of the house planted the trees.

Then I told her I suspected the builder had been a very wise man, and when she asked why I answered, Because he could hardly have chosen a better tree.