midday in June
Eliot stood in the porch of the Manor Farm house . There was nobody there to greet him . Behind him on the oak table in the hall the wire he had sent lay unopened . It was midday in June . All round the place the air was sweet with the smell of the mown hay , and from the Broad Pasture there came the rattle and throb of the mowing-machines . Eliot went down the road and through the gate into the hay-field . Colin and Anne were there .