"I hope you're going to stay down in these parts for a time ?" Tallente made only a monosyllabic reply, and Lady Jane, with a little gesture of apology, continued her conversation with Segerson.
"I should like you," she directed, "to see James Crockford for yourself.
Try and explain my views to him--you know them quite well.

I want him to own his land.

You can tell him that within the last two years I have sold eleven farms to their tenants, and no one could say that I have not done so on easy terms.

But I need further convincing that Crocker is in earnest about the matter, and that he will really work to make his farm a success.

In five good years he has only saved a matter of four hundred pounds, although his rental has been almost insignificant.