The fields around are all square and all flat, all mostly arable, and are often so deep in mud that a stranger wonders that a plough should be able to be dragged through the soil.

The farming is, however, good of its kind, and the ploughing is mostly done by steam.
Such is and has been for some years the house at Folking in which Mr.
Caldigate has lived quite alone.

For five years after his wife's death he had only on rare occasions received visitors there.

Twice his brother had come to Folking, and had brought a son with him.

The brother had been a fellow of a college at Cambridge, and had taken a living, and married late in life.