Jeremy

About thirty years ago there was at the top of the right-hand side of Orange Street in Polchester a large stone house. I say was; the shell of it is still there and the people who now live in it are quite unaware I suppose that anything has happened to the inside of it except that they are certainly assured that their furniture is vastly superior to the furniture of their predecessors. They have a gramophone a pianola and a lift to bring the plates from the kitchen into the dining-room and a small motor garage at the back where the old pump used to be and a very modern rock garden where once was the pond with the fountain that never worked. Let them cherish their satisfaction. No one grudges it to them. The Coles were by modern standards old-fashioned people and the Stone House was an old-fashioned house.