![]() They invite an old family retainer, Lizzie, to become their housekeeper they enjoy the simple pleasures of life in the country and they make plans to invite friends to stay.Īll of this is wonderfully readable, and utterly of its time. Roddy and Pamela are full of ideas for refurbishing the house and making it into a home and they dismiss local gossip that says that the house is haunted, and that terrified tenants had fled. He seems reluctant to sell the house, and reluctant to explain why, but Roddy is persuasive. They find the owner, an elderly man with a granddaughter just out of boarding school. It stood alone not far from the edge of a cliff, it was uninhabited and it appeared to have been neglected for quite some time, but they saw its potential. He is a playwright who wants to escape the complications of London life, and she has just been released from years of caring for their sick father. Roddy and Pamela are brother and sister, and they are searching the Devon coast to find a new home. ![]()
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