The Small House at Allington
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Croquet on the Small House lawn, your family's modest answer to your uncle's grander one next door, is interrupted when the Squire announces that your cousin Bernard is bringing a friend from London. Johnny Eames, home from a City clerkship, invents reasons to linger near your sister Bell and the hoops. Bernard's guest, Adolphus Crosbie, arrives neat and complimentary, praises the garden over the Great House, and stays behind at the gate after everyone else has gone in — his last question addressed, unmistakably, to you.
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