Penny led her down the winding path into the grove.
“I hope we don’t meet your head gardener,” she said significantly. “He seems to be such an unpleasant individual.”
Miss Kippenberg glanced at her queerly.
“Why, how do you mean?”
“Oh, yesterday he ordered me away from here in no uncertain terms.”
“He only meant to do his duty.”
“Then the man has been ordered to keep persons away from this part of the estate?”
“I really couldn’t tell you,” Miss Kippenberg answered aloofly. “Mother has charge of the servants.”
“Has the man been in your employ long?”
“I can’t tell you that either.” Miss Kippenberg’s voice warned Penny that she did not care to be questioned.