Requiem
“High on one of the gateposts was a security camera and, lower down, an intercom with a bell and an integral camera lens. Daisy rang, and a light came on above the lens. She faced the camera and waited. A single low buzz, and the gates swung silently open. She got hastily into the Metro and drove through before they closed again.
The road wove gently through the woodland until, after a long bend, the Metro ground over a cattle grid, its suspension rattling alarmingly, and the shrubs gave way to ...a wide expanse of rough grassland dotted with large trees that rose like sentinels out of the mist.
It was only when the car had jangled over a second grid that the mass of Ashard House came into view. The place sprang straight out of a Walter Scott novel or an Errol Flynn film: heavily buttressed and turreted, windows not just leaded but mullioned as well, ivy growing dutifully up the walls towards a main tower which sported a tall undraped flagstaff.
In the porch was another security camera with a red winking light, its lens pointing to the spot a couple of feet in front of the door where callers stood to operate the old-fashioned metal bell-pull.MoreLess
The road wove gently through the woodland until, after a long bend, the Metro ground over a cattle grid, its suspension rattling alarmingly, and the shrubs gave way to ...a wide expanse of rough grassland dotted with large trees that rose like sentinels out of the mist.
It was only when the car had jangled over a second grid that the mass of Ashard House came into view. The place sprang straight out of a Walter Scott novel or an Errol Flynn film: heavily buttressed and turreted, windows not just leaded but mullioned as well, ivy growing dutifully up the walls towards a main tower which sported a tall undraped flagstaff.
In the porch was another security camera with a red winking light, its lens pointing to the spot a couple of feet in front of the door where callers stood to operate the old-fashioned metal bell-pull.MoreLess
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