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"Instead of which they're robbing and swindling her all the time. Think of the mess that place is in—and five men working on it, too. I don't know any two-hundred-acre farm in these parts that wouldn't look like a market garden if it had five men to work on it."

"There's one good worker," said Anne.

"You mean Ivory? Because he belongs to your church you think a lot of him, but I don't see that he's any better than the others."

"Oh, Nick—how can you say that? He works very hard. As for belonging to my church, I'm afraid that doesn't go for much, as he never comes to Mass. The reason I like him is that he seems really grateful to Lesley—the only one of them who is."

"Gratitude won't clean her fields or mend her hedges. I grant you the feller works hard enough, but he's had no experience. He's got everything to learn and nobody to teach him."

"Perhaps that new secretary of hers may be some use. It's a woman this time, but she may have had some experience or been trained."

"How did she get hold of her?"