There's scarcely a house to be seen for miles, except Wyncomb Farmhouse, Stephen Whitelaw's place, which lies a little way back from the river-bank, about a mile from here; besides that and a solitary cottage here and there, you won't see a sign of human life for four or five miles.

Anybody might be pushed into the river and made away with in broad daylight, and no one need be the wiser.

The loneliness of the place struck me with an awful fear that afternoon, and from that moment I began to think that I should never see Mrs.Holbrook again." "What of her husband?
He was expected on this particular afternoon, you say ?" "He was, sir; but he did not come till the next day.

It was almost dark when I went to the river-bank.

I walked for about three miles and a half, to a gate that opened into the fields by which Mr.Holbrook came across from Malsham.