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"She's tried her damnedest to get her married, especially when that feller was alive. They were always giving parties and dragging her about."

"Yes, I know, poor child, and that's what's put her back up and all the bees in her bonnet. I'm sure it's at the bottom of that wild scheme at Waters Farm."

"Bah!" said Nicholas. "Don't talk to me of Waters Farm. If there's one thing that would make me want to have another war it would be that place. Any competent War Ag. would take it over at once. They'd never stand for what she's doing now. In all my life I've never seen such a gang of wasters and loafers as she's got down there."

"That," said Anne, "is Lesley's soft heart."

"Soft head," grumbled Nicholas. "She must be half-witted if she doesn't see that they're ruining one of the best little farms in Sussex."

"It's because she's a sort of social misfit herself that she feels for other social misfits, and she's so idealistic that she thinks she's only got to show them kindness and generosity in order to get the best out of them in return."