I know how it will be," his sister had said when he was preparing to migrate to this rural retreat: "you will bury yourself down there and not speak to a living soul, and your nerves will be worse than ever from moping. I shall just give you letters of introduction to all the people know there. Some of them, as far as l can remember, were quite nice ton wondered whether Mrs. Sappleton, the lady to whom he was presenting one of the letters of introduction came into the nice division