They needed a doctor , and that gave Jeff an excuseexcusefor droppingdrophis just openingopenpractice ; they needed Terry ’s experience , his machine , and his money ; and as for me , I got in through Terry ’s influence .
Indeed , so little did it enter my head to even use the place in summer , that I submitted to weeks of seaside life with all its horrors every year ; until at last , in the early spring of last year , having comecomedown for the openingopenof the village school , and wanderingwanderout afterwards into the bare and desolate garden , I do n’t know what smell of wet earth or rotting leaves brought back my childhood with a rushrushand all the happy days I had spent in a garden .