Then she turned to me with a little sigh.
"I am content," she said.

"Will you come up and dine with us to-night?
Blenavon will be there, you know." I hesitated.
"I am afraid it is rather a bother to you to leave your work," she continued, "but I am not offering you idle hospitality.

I really want you to come." "In that case," I answered, "of course I shall be delighted." She pointed to Braster Grange away on the other side of the village.

I noticed for the first time that it was all lit up.
"Have you heard anything of our new neighbours ?" she asked.
"Only their names," I answered.

"I did not even know that they had arrived." "There is only a woman, I believe," she said.