It is a very odd house: the front door opens straight into the dining-room, and there are red curtains and a black-and-white marble floor like a chess-board, and there is a secret staircase, only it is not secret now--only rather rickety.

It is not very big, but there is a watery moat all round it with a brick bridge that leads to the front door.

Then, on the other side of the moat there is the farm, with barns and oast houses and stables, or things like that.

And the other way the garden lawn goes on till it comes to the churchyard.

The churchyard is not divided from the garden at all except by a little grass bank.