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"I believe she's working in the garden She took with her quite a bit of equipment"

"Equip with horrific iled trees and hacked up plants "Where did she find equipave it to her"

Blake turned on his heel and strode out "God help us"

He wasn't prepared for what he saw

Holes

Big, gaping holes, all over his forht it had been pristine In all truth, he had never paid much attention to it But he did know that it had definitely not looked like this, with brown clurass He didn't see Caroline, but he knew she had to be there

"What have you done?" he bellowed

A head popped out fro? This is a disaster And you," he said to Ja"

Caroline eed from behind the tree, her dress liberally streaked with dirt "I' my--You're what? This doesn't look the least bit fixed toto look so wonderful until I finish with my work, but when I do--"

"Your work? All I see is a dozen holes"

"Two dozen"

"I shouldn't have said that, were I you," James commented from a safe distance

Caroline stuck the end of her shovel in the dirt and leaned on it as she spoke to Blake "Once you hear my explanation, I'!"

"Yes" She sighed, "arden, his head whipping frantically fro to have to call in an expert frooing to cost me a bloody fortune"

"Don't be silly," she replied "These holes will all be filled up by evening I' plants into the sun They'll do much better Except for that i to the lovely pink and white flowers planted right next to the house "Those thrive in the shade"

"I say, Ravenscroft," Jaht to let her continue"

"They were getting toooff before they had a chance to bloom"

James turned to Blake and said, "It does sound as if she knohat she's doing"

"I don't care if she's earned a bloody doctorate in horticulture She had no right to tear apart arden"

Caroline planted her free hand on her hip She was starting to get more than a little irritated with his attitude "It's not as if you gave a care to the garden before I started my work here"

"And ould you think that?"

"Anyone with an ounce of gardening sense would have been appalled by the state of your rosebushes," she scoffed, "and the hedges are in dire need of tries," he warned

"I wasn't planning on it They've grown so high I couldn't possibly reach the top, anyway I was going to ask you to do it"