"Mr Arnott, he told me to shoot him if ever I see him this side the fence."
"I am mistress here now. You may think yourself fortunate if you're not presently introduced to a policeman."
"I was only obeying orders, that's all I was doing."
"Orders! How long ago is it since the orders to which you refer were given you?"
Mr Morice interposed an answer,--
"It's more than four years since I was near the place."
The keeper turned towards him with a vindictive snarl.
"Four years! what's four years? An order's an order if it's four years or forty. How was I to know that things are different, and that now you're to come poaching and trespassing whenever you please?"
Miss Arnott was very stern.
"Baker, take yourself away from here at once. You will hear of this again. Do you hear me? Go! without a word!"