Chapter 22: Coming to a Standstill

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌​​⁠Mr. Harcourt Talboys lived in a prim, square, red-brick mansion, within a mile of a little village called Grange Heath, in Dorsetshire. The prim, square, red-brick mansion stood in the center of prim, square grounds, scarcely large enough to be called a park, too large to be called anything else—so neither the house nor the grounds had any name, and the estate was simply designated Squire Talboys'