"This is unbearably hot," said Miss Dorset, as they turned off once on the terrace and approached the door in the middle a second time, which opened into the wilderness. "Should anyone object to being comfortable? Here is a nice grove, if you can only get in. What luck if the door should not be locked! but of course it is; because in these great places, gardeners are the only people who can go wherever they want."
However, the door turned out to be unlocked, and everyone agreed to walk through joyfully and leave the unmitigated glow of the day behind. A considerable staircase led them into the wilderness, which was a planted forest of about two acres, and although it was mainly felled from larch, laurel and beech and laid out with too much regularity, it was dark and shady and naturally b
