That keeps me occupied." They turned into the avenue and soon the long front of the house spread itself out before them.

Jane, who had been momentarily absorbed, looked down at her companion.
"You are alone at the Manor ?" she asked.
"Quite alone." She became the hostess directly they had passed the portals of the house.

She led him across the hall into her little sanctum.
"This is the room," she told him, "in which I never do a stroke of work--sacred to the frivolities alone.

I shall send Morton in to see what you will have to drink, while I change my habit.

You must have something after that walk.