"I should leave that entirely to Miss Lutwyche."
"I say, Melicent, here's your chance!" cried Helston mischievously. "You'll be able to send another paragraph to the Hauberk?"
"How dare you?" she cried, threatening him in mock rage. "Oh ... but this is wonderful! Are you serious, Captain Brooke?"
"Quite. I have bought the land. Only about twenty acres. I should like your advice about the actual site of the house."
"Well, Millie, if you give satisfaction over this, your career is made," cried Brenda.
"But what kind of house do you want?" cried the girl. "You must tell me that!"
"No; that's what I shall pay you to tell me," said Millie's client calmly. He smiled for the first time, as he added: "You have the thousand eyes."
"Well!" said Melicent, "the agitations of this day have been quite too much for me!"
"Do your people live at Clunbury?" asked Helston of the Captain.
"Oh, no; not now. They sold their last acre in my grandfather's time. A churchyard full of their graves is all that is left. It is, however, a part of their land that I have bought back."