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Hinton Mallory was one of the largest farmhouses in the district. One of Colonel St Cyres’ friends who had stayed with him recently had said: “If Mallory Fitzjohn were on a bus route or near a station you’d have become a show place, Colonel. I haven’t seen a finer group of houses in the county.”
“Thank God we’re not on a bus route then, and that our roads will never tempt the motoring week-enders,” St Cyres had replied.