Chapter 21

‘So there is,’ said Giles. ‘Though I’m afraid it’s not in very good condition. It hasn’t been clipped for the last year or so.’ ‘It’s still there, though,’ said Biddy. ‘Shall we go and have a look at it?’ They trooped off over the lawn to the narrow paved walk which, enclosed by low hedges, led through the parkland to a second and larger orchard and kitchen garden on the east side. At the far end of a wide strip of grass in which fruit trees stood they saw the maze before they reached it—a great square of yew, the …