We have a certain sentiment with regard to that house.

Our people have lived in it ever since it was built, when the square was first laid out in the reign of Queen Anne, after whom the square was named.

It is a dear old house.

Would you like to see it?
We are quite near it now." I assented eagerly.

If it had been a coal-shed or a fried-fish shop I would still have visited it with pleasure, for the sake of prolonging our walk; but I was also really interested in this old house as a part of the background of the mystery of the vanished John Bellingham.
We crossed into Cosmo Place, with its quaint row of the, now rare, cannon-shaped iron posts, and passing through stood for a few moments looking into the peaceful, stately old square.