CONTENTS

I[The Hall]
II[The Grange]
III[Norman]
IV[Pamela]
V[The Family]
VI[Barton's Close]
VII[Young People]
VIII[Wellsbury]
IX[Letters]
X[Reconciliation]
XI[A Question of Labour]
XII[New Ideas]
XIII[Discussion]
XIV[Church and After]
XV[The Rift]
XVI[Crisis]
XVII[Honours]
XVIII[Fred Comfrey]
XIX[Investigation]
XX[A Question of Finance]
XXI[Pershore Castle]
XXII[A Summer Afternoon]
XXIII[Approaches]
XXIV[Almost]
XXV[Miss Baldwin Looks On]
XXVI[Before Christmas]
XXVII[Two Young Men]
XXVIII[And the Third]
XXIX[The New Chapter]
XXX[The Trodden Way]
XXXI[An Ending and a Beginning]

THE HALL AND THE GRANGE

[CHAPTER I]

THE HALL

Colonel Eldridge was enjoying an afternoon doze, or a series of dozes, in the Sabbath peace of his garden. His enjoyment was positive, for he had a prejudice against sleeping in the day-time, and sat upright in his basket chair with no support to his head; so that when sleep began to overtake him he nodded heavily and woke up again. If he had provided himself with a cushion from one of the chairs or lounges by his side, he would have slumbered blissfully, but would have been lost to the charm of his surroundings.