The garden was about a third the size of a tennis court mostly grass kept short by the feet of the customers. Two concrete posts supported a clematis and a climbing rose, which were supposed to screen the little yard where the dustbins stood, and the old rabbit hutch. There were red and white striped garden umbrellas, Printed with the name of a brewery, though it was Doc's ambition to have his own pub, that was what his wife and daughters were working for. Abandoned on the grass has a little trolley of wooden bricks that had belonged, like the rabbit, first to Jess, then to Josie; how visiting children sometimes played with it, and sometimes they gave the rabbit, sunbathing in hi box, scraps of unwanted salad, or a dandelion discovery in the grit along the fence.