He questioned her sometimes about his place at Nunnely; she was but too happy to answer his interrogatories at length. She never wearied of describing the antique priory, the wild silvan park, the hoary church and hamlet; nor did she fail to counsel him to come down and gather his tenantry about him in his ancestral halls.

He questioned her sometimes about his place at Nunnely; she was happy to describe the area, and advised him to visit his ancestral halls. 