things."

"What things?" I asked.

"All the things — everything, Daisy; all the affairs of the
plantation; the rice-fields and the cotton-fields, and the
people, and everything."

"Where are the stables? and where are we going?"

"Here — just here — a little way off. They are just in a dell
over here — the other side of the house, where the quarters
are."

"Quarters"? I repeated.

"Yes. Oh, you don't know anything down here, but you'll learn.
The stables and quarters are in this dell we are coming to;
nicely out of sight. Magnolia is one of the prettiest places
on the river."

We had passed through the grove of oaks on the further side of
the house, and then found the beginning of a dell which, like
the one by which we had come up a few hours before, sloped
gently down to the river. In its course it widened out to a
little low sheltered open ground, where a number of buildings
stood.

"So the house is between two dells," I said.