A Laodicean. A Story of To-Day

The daughter of a railway millionaire buys a Norman castle and cannot decide anything - church or chapel, one suitor or the other - while a young architect restores her battlements and a photographer forges a picture. Hardy trained as an architect and dictated much of this from bed during a near-fatal illness; it is his novel about the new money meeting the old stones, and about a woman who is lukewarm on principle.