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Macdonald, if you and your husband would add to your kindness by staying on here for a few days with the boys? You would see the country round, and then you would motor down with them and join us at Mintern Abbas for another week. D'you think you can spare the time? Jean would like you to see her in her own house, and I needn't say how honoured I would feel." "Bless me," said Mrs. Macdonald.
You've got lovely clothes, and we'll go straight to Mintern Abbas, where it doesn't matter what we wear. I tell you what, we'll go to London to-morrow and see lawyers and things do you realise you haven't even got an engagement ring, you neglected child? And tell Pam Mad? Of course, it's mad. It's the way they did in the Golden World. It's Rosalind and Orlando. Be persuaded, Penny-plain."
She is a daughter of the late Lord Bidborough of Bidborough Manor, Surrey, and Mintern Abbas, Oxfordshire, and sister of the present peer: I looked her up in Debrett. I called on her, feeling it my duty to be civil to a stranger, but it seems to me a very odd thing that a peer's daughter would care to live in such a humble way. Mark my words, there's something shady about it.
It hurt Mhor afresh to see the dogs barking happily while Peter, who would so have enjoyed a fight with them, was spending a boring day in the stable-yard, but Jean comforted him with the thought of Peter's delight at Mintern Abbas. "Will Richard Plantagenet mind if he chases rabbits?" "You won't, will you, Biddy?" Jean said. "Not a bit.
"In Shelley's dreams of Heaven there are always a river and a boat I read that somewhere.... Well, what do you think of Mintern Abbas? Did I overpraise?" Jean shook her head. "That wouldn't be easy. It's the most wonderful place ... like a dream. Look at it now in the afternoon light, pale gold like honey.
"You will like to come to Mintern Abbas, won't you, Mhor?" she said. Mhor considered. "I would have liked it better," he confessed, "if there had been a railway line quite near. It was silly of whoever built it to put it so far away." "When Mintern Abbas was built railways hadn't been invented." "I'm glad I wasn't invented before railways," said Mhor. "I would have been very dull."
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