GROUNDS ABOUT ROOKINGTON 9. A LADY’S DRAWING-ROOMS—ETHELBERTA’S DRESSING-ROOM 10. LADY PETHERWIN’S HOUSE 11. SANDBOURNE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD—SOME LONDON STREETS 12. ARROWTHORNE PARK AND LODGE 13. THE LODGE (continued)—THE COPSE BEHIND 14. A TURNPIKE ROAD 15. AN INNER ROOM AT THE LODGE 16. A LARGE PUBLIC HALL 17. ETHELBERTA’S HOUSE 18. NEAR SANDBOURNE—LONDON STREETS—ETHELBERTA’S 19. ETHELBERTA’S DRAWING-ROOM 20. THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF THE HALL—THE ROAD HOME 21. A STREET—NEIGH’S ROOMS—CHRISTOPHER’S ROOMS 22. ETHELBERTA’S HOUSE 23. ETHELBERTA’S HOUSE (continued) 24. ETHELBERTA’S HOUSE (continued)—THE BRITISH MUSEUM 25. THE ROYAL ACADEMY—THE FARNFIELD ESTATE 26. ETHELBERTA’S DRAWING-ROOM 27. MRS. BELMAINE’S—CRIPPLEGATE CHURCH 28. ETHELBERTA’S—MR. CHICKEREL’S ROOM 29. ETHELBERTA’S DRESSING-ROOM—MR. DONCASTLE’S HOUSE 30. ON THE HOUSETOP 31. KNOLLSEA—A LOFTY DOWN—A RUINED CASTLE 32. A ROOM IN ENCKWORTH COURT 33. THE ENGLISH CHANNEL—NORMANDY 34. THE HÔTEL BEAU SÉJOUR, AND SPOTS NEAR IT 35. THE HOTEL (continued), AND THE QUAY IN FRONT 36. THE HOUSE IN TOWN 37. KNOLLSEA—AN ORNAMENTAL VILLA 38. ENCKWORTH COURT 39. KNOLLSEA—MELCHESTER 40. MELCHESTER (continued) 41. WORKSHOPS—AN INN—THE STREET 42. THE DONCASTLES’ RESIDENCE, AND OUTSIDE THE SAME 43. THE RAILWAY—THE SEA—THE SHORE BEYOND 44. SANDBOURNE—A LONELY HEATH—THE ‘RED LION’—THE HIGHWAY 45. KNOLLSEA—THE ROAD THENCE—ENCKWORTH 46. ENCKWORTH (continued)—THE ANGLEBURY HIGHWAY 47. ENCKWORTH AND ITS PRECINCTS—MELCHESTER SEQUEL. ANGLEBURY—ENCKWORTH—SANDBOURNE

1. A STREET IN ANGLEBURY—A HEATH NEAR IT—INSIDE THE ‘RED LION’ INN

Young Mrs. Petherwin stepped from the door of an old and well-appointed inn in a Wessex town to take a country walk. By her look and carriage she appeared to belong to that gentle order of society which has no worldly sorrow except when its jewellery gets stolen; but, as a fact not generally known, her claim to distinction was rather one of brains than of blood. She was the daughter of a gentleman who lived in a large house not his own, and began life as a baby christened Ethelberta after an infant of title who does not come into the story at all, having merely furnished Ethelberta’s mother with a subject of contemplation. She became teacher in a school, was praised by examiners, admired by gentlemen, not admired by gentlewomen, was touched up with accomplishments by masters who were coaxed into painstaking by her many graces, and, entering a mansion as governess to the daughter thereof, was stealthily married by the son. He, a minor like herself, died from a chill caught during the wedding tour, and a few weeks later was followed into the grave by Sir Ralph Petherwin, his unforgiving father, 

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