Lady was as much a part of Lad\'s everyday happiness as the sunshine itself.
He had the benign dignity that was a heritage from endless generations of high-strain ancesto.
Lad was an eighty-pound collie, thoroughbred in spirit as well as in blood.
It had never occurred to him to suspect that Lady could be any less devoted than he-until Knave came to The Place.
He could no more have imagined a Ladyless life than a sunless life.
She seemed to him quite as perfect, and as gloriously indispensable.
Lady was as much a part of Lad\'s everyday happiness as the sunshine itself