Publisher's Synopsis
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the nextin a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the lasttramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the night. Inthe first part I was in an infamous temper; in the second I was worried and mystified; but thecool twilight of the third stage calmed and heartened me, and I reached the gates of Fosse Manorwith a mighty appetite and a quiet mind...
