I am clear that the offer is not to be lightly rejected." Dr.Sandwith was a doctor in Chelsea.

Chelsea in the year 1790 was a very different place to Chelsea of the present day.

It was a pretty suburban hamlet, and was indeed a very fashionable quarter.
Here many of the nobility and personages connected with the court had their houses, and broad country fields and lanes separated it from the stir and din of London.

Dr.Sandwith had a good practice, but he had also a large family.

Harry was at Westminster, going backwards and forwards across the fields to school.