He was rich, a bachelor, and rebuilt the church.

(Is it not all written in the fly-leaf of the last register ?) Mrs.Tomley inherited her uncle's landed property in this neighbourhood, and says that she is only well in the air of Northumberland.

So Mr.Tomley has to come up here, which he doesn't at all like, although I gather that he is glad to escape from his present squire, who seems to be a distinguished but arbitrary old gentleman, an ex-Colonel of the Guards; rather quarrelsome, too, with a habit of making fun of Mrs.Tomley.

There's the explanation.
"So just because of the silly criticism of 'Our Musical Man' we are going to move several hundred miles.

But is that really the cause?
Are these things done of our own desire, or do we do them because we must, as our forefathers believed?
Beneath our shouts and chattering they have always heard the slow thunder of the waves of Fate.