You needn't believe this. The others didn't when I told them.
THE SPREADING WALNUT TREE
We were having breakfast in the garden with the wasps, and Peter was enlarging on the beauties of the country round his new week-end cottage.
"Then there's Hilderton," he said; "that's a lovely little village, I'm told. We might explore it to-morrow."
Celia woke up suddenly.
"Is Hilderton near here?" she asked in surprise. "But I often stayed there when I was a child."
"This was years ago, when Edward the Seventh was on the throne," I explained to Mrs. Peter.
"My grandfather," went on Celia, "lived at Hilderton Hall."