Rain In Hertfordshire

For him, returning to Hertfordshire Five years after his lover's death was like laying down in the casket he had once been buried into.

Yet, like the lure of all tragic echoes, the hills called him back and Robert Penfield found himself in a country house not far from Ashleyton, where she had once been_ or her grave, where she now was_ and just on the verge of an engagement with a woman from London he found barely 'tolerable'.