An emissary from Tottenham Court Road sped down to Polterham, surveyed the vacant house, returned with professional computations.

Quarrier and Lilian abode at the old home until everything should be ready for them, and Mrs.Liversedge represented her brother on the spot--solving the doubts of workmen, hiring servants, making minor purchases.

She invited Denzil to bring his wife, and dwell for the present under the Liversedge roof, but her brother preferred to wait.

"I don't like makeshifts; we must go straight into our own house; the dignity of the Radical candidate requires it." So the work glowed, and as little time as possible was spent over its completion.
It was midway in January when the day and hour of arrival were at last appointed.

No one was to be in the house but the servants.