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CHAPTER XV
Mrs. Norbury Confides in Dear Mr. Gillingham
They left the road, and took the path across the fields which
sloped gently downwards towards Jallands. Antony was silent, and
since it is difficult to keep up a conversation with a silent man
for any length of time, Bill had dropped into silence too. Or
rather, he hummed to himself, hit at thistles in the grass with
his stick and made uncomfortable noises with his pipe. But he
noticed that his companion kept looking back over his shoulder,
almost as if he wanted to remember for a future occasion the way
by which they were coming. Yet there was no difficulty about it,
for they remained all the time in view of the road, and the belt
of trees above the long park wall which bordered its further side
stood out clearly against the sky.
Antony, who had just looked round again, turned back with a
smile.
"What's the joke?" said Bill, glad of the more social atmosphere.
"Cayley. Didn't you see?"
"See what?"
"The car. Going past on the road there."
"So that's what you were looking for.
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