“I didn’t leave the Marsh until I was nearly fourteen, and then I went to school in Hastings. The first time I saw anything really geographical was when Lord Corvin brought me to his house in Derbyshire. I saw the land rise as we travelled of course, but when the carriage stopped in the Peaks, when I truly understood what a mountainous region looked like and that I had to live in it, I wanted to curl in a ball on the floor and cry.” “Really?” “I felt like being sick. It was awful. They just went up and up. Or one went up them, and then the land went down.”
