Chapter 17: At the Castle Inn

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌⁠The little sitting-room into which Phoebe Marks ushered the baronet's nephew was situated on the ground floor, and only separated by a lath-and-plaster partition from the little bar-parlor occupied by the innkeeper and his wife.

It seemed as though the wise architect who had superintended the building of the Castle Inn had taken especial care that nothing but the frailest and most flimsy material s