Next door there was a new house building which would give good cover for observation, and the villa on the other side was to let, and its garden was rough and shrubby.
I borrowed Scaife's telescope, and before lunch went for a walk along the Ruff.

I kept well behind the rows of villas, and found a good observation point on the edge of the golf-course.

There I had a view of the line of turf along the cliff top, with seats placed at intervals, and the little square plots, railed in and planted with bushes, whence the staircases descended to the beach.

I saw Trafalgar Lodge very plainly, a red-brick villa with a veranda, a tennis lawn behind, and in front the ordinary seaside flower-garden full of marguerites and scraggy geraniums.

There was a flagstaff from which an enormous Union Jack hung limply in the still air.
Presently I observed someone leave the house and saunter along the cliff.