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- Are you drawing up the battle lines? - Poor Robert.
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The post-war world has not been kind to him.
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How are you getting on with the agent's house?
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- I hope Jarvis didn't leave it a wreck. - No, not at all.
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But the furniture was his,
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so I'll have to begin in a state of Trappist simplicity.
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I'm sure there's some stuff in the attics here. We'll have a look.
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What about Sybbie?
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Won't it be lonely for her,
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just you and Nanny and nobody else for company?
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I think it's right for both of us.
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Mr Barrow?