"Then I have just come from the house you are bound for."
"Are you a farm-servant at the Inn-farm?"
"Used to be, but the hands are all gone now. I was the last to leave, sir."
"Where are Gudrun and Jon Vidalin?"
"Farming Korastead these ten years sir."
"And Asher?"
"He has gone too. We thinned down fast when the master got into trouble. I was with him from the time I was a little chap, but he paid me off this afternoon."
"Where's old Maria?"
"Dead long ago."
"Is there nobody left then?"