She too is charming, but in a different, graver way." He spoke of them all with a serious lingering pleasure, as though he were summoning them all into the dusty, stuffy corridor, carrying them with him into these strange countries and perilous adventures.
"They always laughed at me--Millie especially; I've stayed sometimes with them at Garth.

But I didn't mean really to talk about _them_--I only wanted to show you how deeply Glebeshire matters to the Trenchards, and whatever happens, wherever a Trenchard goes, he always really takes Glebeshire with him.

I was born in Polchester, as I said.
My father had a little property there, but we always lived in a little round bow-windowed house in the Cathedral Close.

I was simply brought up on the Cathedral.

From my bedroom windows I looked on the whole of it.