Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch

But there was simply nothing to work for unless he could see a way out of the trap. With Emma blocking all roads into the future except one, he might have gone off his head like the Colonel, who had found his way out by shutting himself into his Tudor mansion of bark and pretending that the jealous Prince Consort had immured him in his country seat.

One night he sat on the veranda listening to Emma and Rosa in the sitting-room.