Chapter 16 EXPECTATIONS

Not many years ago a couple were living in the South of England whose name was Wotchett-Ralph and Eileen Wotchett; a curious name, derived, Ralph asserted, from a Saxon Thegn called Otchar mentioned in Domesday, or at all events-when search of the book had proved vain-on the edge of that substantial record.

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