We had been wandering wander , indeed , in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning ; but since dinner dinner ( Mrs. Reed , when there was no company , dined early ) the cold winter wind wind had brought bring with it clouds cloud so sombre , and a rain rain so penetrating , that further out-door exercise was now out of the question .

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 come come down for the opening open of the village school , and wandering wander out 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 rush rush and all the happy days I had spent in a garden .

Through the rich interior of this mansion Mr. Pett , its nominal proprietor , was wandering wander like a lost spirit .