CHAPTER VII.
A bachelor's an unfinished thing ...

He wants somebody to listen to his talk .-- EDEN PHILLPOTTS.
Reader, do you know Barford, in Hampshire?
If you don't, I can tell you how to get to it.

You take train from Victoria, and you get out at Saundersfoot.

There is nothing at Saundersfoot, except a wilderness of lodgings and a tin station and a high wind.

It need not detain an active mind beyond the necessary moment of enquiring by which road it may be most quickly left.