The maze has been maintained. That is the part Mione keeps coming back to. Somebody has been clipping nine hundred yards of yew for a hundred years without being paid.

CorvinaThere is an under-gardener on the estate books. There has been an under-gardener on the estate books since 1894 and I have never once met him.

PorterSomebody must pay him.

CorvinaThe books say he is paid a shilling a week and has been since 1894, and the accounts are always two shillings short and always have been.