A retired sea captain sets up a toll-gate on the road through his property, and his lively niece Olive comes to live with him and help collect the fares. Travellers soon become visitors, visitors become suitors, and the household fills with an eccentric poet, a family friend’s son and a crowd of neighbours. The volume opens with a memorial sketch of the author by his wife, Marian Stockton.
The last novel of the author of The Lady, or the Tiger?, full of his light, whimsical humour. Download the free EPUB.