They were seated together at the breakfast-table, a handsome, boredlooking man of thirty-three, and a girl of twenty-six, whose dress of a richblue made an admirable touch of colour in the dim, brown room.The house had been designed in the period when shelter from the windseems to have been the one desired good, and was therefore built in a dell, from which the garden rose in a rapid slope. Today the house would crownthe head of the slope, and the...