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The village street stretched in one direction down the hill to the two-miles-off railway station, and in the other to the large white house with pillared portico, from which there was a fine view of the sunset, and beyond which it still continued, purposeful but lonely, until it came suddenly upon half a dozen houses which turned out to be another village.
It was late October: the days were drawing in; it was almost dark when the fly from the two-miles-off railway station I should have explained that there was no station at Thetford; the inhabitants had petitioned against the railway coming near them, and now their children had to suffer the inconvenience of this shortsightedness as best they might drew up at Miss Mildmay's door, and out of it stepped four people three children, and a young man scarcely more than a boy.
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