The ground rent's very high." "Well, Mr.Forsyte, I shall be sorry if you go off, and I think you'll make a mistake, Sir.

There's not a bit of land near London with such a view as this, nor one that's cheaper, all things considered; we've only to advertise, to get a mob of people after it." They looked at each other.

Their faces said very plainly: 'I respect you as a man of business; and you can't expect me to believe a word you say.' Well, repeated Soames, "I haven't made up my mind; the thing will very likely go off!" With these words, taking up his umbrella, he put his chilly hand into the agent's, withdrew it without the faintest pressure, and went out into the sun.
He walked slowly back towards the site in deep thought.

His instinct told him that what the agent had said was true.

A cheap site.