Thomas Gage

Thomas Gage is a happy man. He has a fine house in Norfolk, two delightful children, a wife who brought with her a nice income from her father''s paint firm, a Waterloo medal, and a painting on show at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Then, a few months after Thomas Gage''s fiftieth birthday, Julius Gooby enters his life.

Mr Gooby is a man of the future, manager of the proposed North Norfolk R...