Tom Ransome was jobless, on the brink homelessness and at his wit's end when he bumped into Jeremy Eskdale... The two men had not met since their days at Rugby, until that chance encounter in the Flying Fox which was so strangely to alter their lives. For from that moment their lives were to become curiously entwined. Tom, at the very end of his fortunes, found himself looking after the huge ramshackle country house which Jeremy's rich wife was trying...