Even after you'd pulled off the man road and could see Marcus's house off in the distance,it look a good ten minutes to get there, winding your way along a twisting narrow coastal lane, past immense'
cottages' and modest suburban house built in the last half
-century on small lots sold off by old-money Brahmins whose fortune had dwindled away. A few of the grand old homes remained in the hands of the shabby gentry, the descendants of proper Bosint but they'd mostly fallen into disrepair. Many of the big house had been