This chapter introduces the local landowners to the area, the Thorne family. Though this family is very old and established in the town, it currently has only two members. Mr. Thorne and his sister Miss Thorne share the home together. Neither of them is married and both are extremely old-fashioned and set in their ways. Their opinions are usually consistent with whatever was fashionable fifty years earlier. This results in their statement of many certainties about people who are no longer living and of policies that.....
