In an exquisite moment of synchronicity and irony, both Alice and Jake were thinking of travelling back to Georgian England—more precisely, to 1790. She had found a leaflet in the hotel foyer describing the re-evoked Georgian townhouse at No.1 Royal Crescent which was open to the public for a small admission fee. The house was furnished and decorated with authentic furniture and paintings of the period, so she decided to pay a morning visit.
Jake, meanwhile, was comparing his historic chart of the Challacombe area with a modern ordnance survey map. The current map did not depart greatly from its eighteenth-century predecessor. One important detail was missing, however. It was not difficult for Jake to pinpoint the stell with a pencilled cross on the modern map. Its exact location was of v
