Being Yours
Round, made of stone, and full of fish and water-lilies, it shot a fountain of water nearly thirty feet into the air.
It was cooler there.
George didn’t much like the heat. He was a small but very fat man, with a round belly and short, stocky legs. He could only imagine what the heat must be like inside the hot-houses.
George didn’t know a cool-house from an intermediary house. In fact, George could hardly tell an orchid from a cyclamen.
His small, round eyes watched the royal party moving leisurely from one huge greenhouse to another.
In the lead was Bevis McCormick, the Scottish hick Brian had hired just after he’d persuaded his ‘best pal’ George to put up the money for the company.
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