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Mr Charles Wilby was an amiable young gentleman of six-and-twenty from a well-respected Oxfordshire family. He had inherited Amplecock Hall two years previously and lived there with his widowed mother and a modest retinue of domestic staff. The estate covered around 1200 acres of productive farmland, but the income this generated was barely adequate to maintain the household and the family had no remaining capital investments. Improvements and repairs to the fabric of the building were becoming urgent. Mr Wilby had therefore followed his father's dying wish and contracted himself to a young lady with a secure income of two thousand pounds per annum, a Miss Sophy Gray, who currently resided in the city of Oxford, a distance of some thirty miles from Amplecock Hall. Mr Wilby could not in sound conscience declare himself to be in love with Miss Gray, who was somewhat plain in appearance and dull in character, but he had no doubt that she would prove to be an efficient and prudent mistress of the household. No date had yet been set for the marriage, and Mr Wilby was in no great hurry to arrange the event, as there were other issues and interests he wished to pursue in the meantime.