36
POSSESSION
"This place is a great expense." She drew a deep breath that was almost a sigh.
They now were retracing their steps. A primrose yellow filled the sky behind the burnished bloom of the cherry orchards.
They were silent a while, then, as they drew near the gate Derek said, "I've been wondering, Miss Jerrold, if I were to rig up a tennis court, whether you would come over and play."
"Oh, I should love to! But why can't we have it here? Our lawns are more level, I think."
"I want some attraction at Grimstone," he said, and she remarked, though not for the first time, that look of happy expectancy in his greenish-blue eyes.
