"Oh! I saw Lord Lufton the other day with a great armful of pheasants." "An armful! Why we had seven cartloads the other day at Gatherum." "Seven carts full of pheasants!" said Lucy, amazed.
"That's not so much.

We had eight guns, you know.

Eight guns will do a deal of work when the game has been well got together.

They manage all that capitally at Gatherum.

Been at the duke's, eh ?" Lucy had heard the Framley report as to Gatherum Castle, and said with a sort of shudder that she had never been at that place.