He was aiming, generally speaking, at Selby and York; and it seemed that this would suit the Major as well as anything else.

There is, I believe, some kind of routine amongst the roadsters; and about that time of the year most of them are as far afield as at any time from their winter quarters.

The Major and Mrs.Trustcott, he soon learned, were Southerners; but they would not turn homewards for another three months yet, at least.

For himself, he had no ideas beyond a general intention to reach Barham some time in the autumn, before Jack went back to Cambridge for his fourth year.
"The country is not prepossessing about here," observed the Major presently; "Hampole is an exception." Frank glanced back at the valley they were leaving.

It had, indeed, an extraordinarily retired and rural air; it was a fertile little tract of ground, very limited and circumscribed, and the rail that ran through it was the only sign of the century.