'I thought it was well it should be bought,' said Hazel demurely.
'When did you do that?'
'A good while ago. Before the sickness in the Hollow.'
She got another look, if she could see it, which it was also worth while to get. After which Dane remarked sedately,
'I am curious to know how Mr. Falkirk liked that investment.'
'Mr. Falkirk never knew. It is a great comfort sometimes,' she went on, the loveliest roses waking up now all over her face, 'to have a little independent power. And to be able to act without one's guardians. Mr. Falkirk was not consulted,any more than Mr. Rollo.'
Rollo's lips twitched and curved, but on the whole he maintained a decorous composure.
'We don't know our privileges, Arthur,' he remarked.
'No,' said his friend concisely. 'How ever in the world came Governor Powder to let the lady have the land? Why he has refused half the county!'
'I do not know,' said Wych Hazel. 'I think I made him.'