They could not agree either as to the kinship or the date; though the visitor was the more certain because he so well remembered that there was an extraordinary cut of 'turvin' that year.

The 'turvin' is the hay made on the leaze, not the meadows, out of the rough grass and bennets left by the cows.

To listen to the zest with which they entered into the minutest details of the family affairs of so long ago, concerning people with whom neither had any connection--how they recollected the smallest particulars--was astonishing.

This marvellous capacity for gossip seemed like a revelation of a totally different state of society.

The memory of country people for such details is beyond belief.
When the visitor left with his wife we walked to the gate and saw them down the road; and it was curious to note that they did not walk side by side.