Beside him, little Ann was silent, with her legs stuck out rather wide apart.
Motoring was a new excitement, for at home it was forbidden; and a meditative rapture shone in her wide eyes above her sudden little nose.
Only once she spoke, when close to the lodge the car slowed down, and they passed the lodge-keeper's little daughter.
"Hallo, Susie!" There was no answer, but the look on Susie's small pale face was so humble and adoring that Lord Valleys, not a very observant man, noticed it with a sort of satisfaction.

"Yes," he thought, somewhat irrelevantly, "the country is sound at heart!".