Then he made his way out along the passage to the front door, which from the inside he was able to open easily enough.

Leaving it carefully ajar, he went out with the intention of making an examination of the outside of the place.

Instead, however, he paused at the corner of the building with his face turned landwards.
Exactly fronting him now, about three-quarters of a mile away, on the summit of that strange hill which stood out like a gigantic rock in the wilderness, was St.David's Hall.

He looked at it steadily and with increasing admiration.

Its long, red brick front with its masses of clustering chimneys, a little bare and weather-beaten, impressed him with a sense of dignity due as much to the purity of its architecture as the singularity of its situation.