
You arrive in Surrey's Brackenhurst with no luggage, no nameable country, and manners that still leave you a mystery — civil servant Philip Christy is the friendliest thing you meet. Sovereigns, guineas, and the etiquette of a respectable address all get worked out in public before Miss Blake will rent you a room on trial. At church the next morning, Philip's sister Frida and her husband Robert treat you as a curiosity and a danger at once, until Frida alone asks why you chose this house to enter next.
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