ABSTRACT
‘… You have a very smiling scene before you.’ ‘Do you mean literally or figuratively? Literally I conclude. Yes, certainly, the sun shines and the park looks very cheerful. But unluckily that iron gate, that ha-ha, give me a feeling of restraint and hardship. I cannot get out, as the starling said.’ As she spoke, and it was with expression, she walked to the gate; he followed her. ‘Mr Rushworth is so long fetching the key!’
