They returned to dine with the old officer at his castle.
'Our dinner was in its arrangement totally unlike anything I had seen in France, or anywhere else.

It consisted of a monstrous, but excellent, wild boar ham; this, and a large savoury pie of different sorts of game, were the principal dishes; which, with some common vegetables, amply satisfied our hunger.

The blunt hospitality of this rural baron was totally different from that which is to be met with in remote parts of the country of England.

It was more the open-heartedness of a soldier than the roughness of a squire.' During the winter of 1772 Edgeworth was busy making plans for flour-mills to be erected on a piece of land gained from the river.
But his stay in Lyons was cut short as the news reached him in March 1773 that Mrs.Edgeworth, who had returned to England for her confinement, had died after giving birth to a daughter.

He travelled home with his son through Burgundy and Paris, and on reaching England arranged to meet Mr.Day at Woodstock.