Winiston House was prettily situated.

The house stood in the midst of charming grounds.

There was a magnificent garden, full of flowers, full of fragrance and bloom; there was an orchard filled with rich, ripe fruit, broad meadow-land where the cattle grazed, where daisies and oxlips grew.

To the left of the house was a large shrubbery, which opened on to a wide carriage drive leading to the high road.

The house was an old red-brick building, in no particular style of architecture, with large oval windows and a square porch.