For more than two years past my house in Cornwall has been made ready to receive all the curios which are preserved here.
When Corbeck went off on his search for the lamps I had the old house at Kyllion made ready; it is fitted with electric light all over, and all the appliances for manufacture of the light are complete.

I had perhaps better tell you, for none of you, not even Margaret, knows anything of it, that the house is absolutely shut out from public access or even from view.

It stands on a little rocky promontory behind a steep hill, and except from the sea cannot be seen.

Of old it was fenced in by a high stone wall, for the house which it succeeded was built by an ancestor of mine in the days when a great house far away from a centre had to be prepared to defend itself.

Here, then, is a place so well adapted to our needs that it might have been prepared on purpose.