I sat there a little, and went on by the forest to the village, met your old nurse, and sounded her as to the peasants' view of you.

As far as I can make out, they don't approve of this.

She said: 'It's not a gentleman's work.

' Altogether, I fancy that in the people's ideas there are very clear and definite notions of certain, as they call it, 'gentlemanly' lines of action.

And they don't sanction the gentry's moving outside bounds clearly laid down in their ideas.