Dower house

In 1923, the future King George VI and his new wife, nee Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, spent part of their honeymoon there.

The Dower House, where the Chettams had to move into after selling the big house, was filmed at Swincombe Manor in Oxfordshire.

The original house was built before 1279, rebuilt in the mid-16th century, and rebuilt again in 1814 after being destroyed in a fire.

The 1814 Jacobean style house was demolished in 1978 and rebuilt in the Georgian style.

For those interested, the drive from the big house to the Dower House would take one hour and 20 minutes according to Google Maps.

But I'm not sure how long it would take on horseback because Google Maps does not have that as an option.

Can you imagine how long it would have taken her to drag [laughs] Roper there?

But she's so bitter about everything that this family has done to survive.

I think that there could now be an office somewhere.

I wasn't sure whether Lillian was talking about an office or within the Dower House or whether it was a separate office somewhere in, I don't know, Borchester.

But I would have thought that if it's work experience, there was no talk about travel or anything like that, so I suspect that the office is a room somewhere within the Dower House that they can work at and that stuff happens at.

So that may be something that has simply changed since Justin arranged for Demara staff to take on looking after Amside, which at the time I think was only mentioned in passing.

It might even only have been a temporary thing that turned out once they got settled in with the stables to be unnecessary, and as I said, if staff had moved on, things might change.

But it was no use, though out of deference for Sir Godfrey's great liking for him, he kept his sentiments strictly to himself.

At the same time, he thought it only fair both to Miss Romanus and himself that she and her uncle should be told frankly that he loved her, and meant to win her if he could before they finally decided to settle in the Dower House.

Sir Godfrey fully agreed with him, and put the matter with perfect plainness before Dr. Halkine, who accepted the situation with a quite philosophical consideration for a natural infirmity of age and sex, which interested him only as one of the inevitable phenomena of human life in its present phase.

Whether or not he acquainted his niece with the state of affairs did not appear just then.

A Mayfair Magician: A Romance of Criminal Science by George Griffith.

Chapter Three.

That evening at the Dower House, Dr. Halkyne had a conversation with Miss Grace on the same subject, the marriage which was now practically agreed upon between herself and Harold Enstone.

"Then you have quite made up your mind, Grace," he said, "and you really think that the marriage is in accordance with your...