Chapter 26

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​⁠Philippa, late that afternoon, found what she sought—solitude. She had walked along the sands until Dreymarsh lay out of sight on the other side of a spur of the cliffs. Before her stretched a long and level plain, a fringe of sand, and a belt of shingly beach. There was not a sign of any human being in sight, and of buildings only a quaint tower on the far horizon.

She found a dry place on the peb