ANDERBY WOLD
"Felicity is a continual progresse of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the later ... so that, in the first place, I put for a generall inclination of all mankind, a perpetuall and restlesse desire of power after power which ceaseth only after death ... and there shall be no contentment but proceeding."
HOBBES LEVIATHAN, I, ii.
Chapter I
FULL SUZERAINTY
When Sarah Bannister's dog-cart bowled along the High Street of Market Burton, its progress was observed by several pairs of eyes, peeping discreetly from behind lace-veiled windows.
"Look, Lizzie, Sarah Bannister's got a new bonnet."
"My word, she'll be late if they don't hurry."