Explore "The Duke in the Suburbs" by Edgar Wallace on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
A few moments later the Duke from his accustomed elevation was conducting his erratic courtship.
It was not perhaps so much of a coincidence, that he seldom failed to discover Alicia in the mornings. She was an enthusiastic gardener. It was a hobby she had only recently taken up. It is said by the people of 70 -- their back windows overlooked the garden and they were notoriously uncharitable -- that the gardening craze, which rightly should come with the spring, did not show in her until after the Duke's arrival; that until then her visits to the garden had been few and far between, and her interest of a perfunctory character.