Royal palms flank a long rectangular pool, a great fallen tree forms a bridge across the water, and heliconias bloom among the elephant ears and banana shrubs.

The invitation for the next evening was accepted, and Cecilia, for once, felt no repugnance to joining the company.

'Well,' said Ron, 'let's lace it up on the projector anyway, we might see something.'

My Lord’s coach convey’d me to Bury, and thence baiting at Newmarket, stepping in at Audley End to see that house againe, I slept at Bishops Strotford, and the next day home.