Sudden heat burst forth, as it does occasionally for a few hours even in our chilly English spring.

The grey-brown bushes and trees started almost with visible progress into the tender green shade which is the forerunner of the bursting leaves.

The sky was of full cloudless blue.

Mr.Wilkins was to come home pretty early from the office to ride out with his daughter and her lover; but, after waiting some time for him, it grew too late, and they were obliged to give up the project.

Nothing would serve Ellinor, then, but that she must carry out a table and have tea in the garden, on the sunny side of the tree, among the roots of which she used to play when a child.