‘Why give me freedom from government?’ ‘Isolation is the price your subjects must pay for their freedom. Here, alone in England, the study of history will be forbidden.’ ‘Why so?’ ‘Let them study the past and they’ll find the way to the other place. Rotherweird must live in the present, and keep itself to itself. Let nobody in, let nobody out. We will build you a new house, suitably imposing for a governor, where you must keep hidden the trial record and Wynter’s more demonic possessions – including that very particular book.’
