You've no conception what an ugly place Plaistow is.
The land isn't actual fen now, but it was once.

And it's quite flat.
And there is a great dike, twenty feet wide, oozing through it,--just oozing, you know; and lots of little dikes, at right angles with the big one.

And the fields are all square.

And there are no hedges,--and hardly a tree to be seen in the place." "What a picture you have drawn! I should commit suicide if I lived there." "Not if you had so much to do as I have." "And what is the house like ?" "The house is good enough,--an old-fashioned manor-house, with high brick chimneys, and brick gables, tiled all over, and large square windows set in stone.

The house is good enough, only it stands in the middle of a farm-yard.