"Why isn't his wife with him?" she asked.
Mary professed complete indifference and ignorance.
"Do you suppose I asked him?" she said. "Marriage isn't a grazing in one field, is it? Life isn't one acre to everybody."
How interestingly he must have talked about his estate and farming. That came leaping at once into Jane's mind. A grazing in one field--that was a new-learnt phrase for Mary. There was little she knew about grazing and could not tell an acre from a rood.
"How does he play golf?" she inquired.
"Fairly well."
"How many strokes did he give you?"
"None--we played level."
"What did he win by?"
"I did--two and one."