`` And it 's my own -- I 'm queen there . There 's solid comfort in having one spot for your own self . To be sure , if I had less land and more house it would be better . '' Miss Cordelia always laughed here . It was one of her jokes . There was a four-acre field behind the house . Both had been left to her by an uncle . The field was of no use to Miss Cordelia ; she did n't keep a cow and she had n't time to make a garden . But she liked her field ; when people asked her why she did n't sell it she said : `` I 'm fond of it . I like to walk around in it when the grass grows long . And it may come in handy some time . Mother used to say if you kept anything seven years it would come to use . I 've had my field a good bit longer than that , but maybe the time will come yet . Meanwhile I rejoice in the fact that I am a landed proprietor to the extent of four acres . '' Miss Cordelia had thought of converting her field into a playground for the factory children and asking detachments of them over on Saturday afternoon . But she knew that her Point Pleasant neighbours would object to this , so that project was dropped . When Miss Cordelia pushed open her little gate , hung crookedly in a very compact and prim spruce hedge , she stopped in amazement and said , `` Well , for pity 's sake ! '' Cynthia Ann Flemming , who lived on the other side of the spruce hedge , now came hurrying over . `` Good evening , Cordelia . I have a letter that was left with me for you . ''
`` But -- that -- horse , '' said Miss Cordelia , XXXXX a long breath between every word .
behind by for if in into of that to with