“I am going to walk to Orchards Corner. Do you mind?”
“No.”
“I haven’t met your mother yet. I don’t know whether it is the proper time for a formal call.”
“Mother will be delighted. She is always delighted.”
“A happy temperament.”
“Very.”
They chose the way through the fir woods, and talked of the Latimer Abbey gardens, and of the particular atmosphere Canterton wanted her to produce for him.
“Oh, you’ll get it! You’ll get the very thing.”
“What an optimist you are.”
“Perhaps I am more of a mystic.”