Then, if I can, I should like to send a message to Twyford by somebody perfectly trustworthynot a servant.

A little over a mile to the south-east is picturesque Twyford on the wooded banks of the Itchen.

The more beautiful, for it gives you, if you will, not only Otterbourne, Shawford and Compton to the west of the stream, but Twyford to the east, the Queen of Hampshire villages, is that which makes for the Roman road between Winchester and Southampton, and following up the valley of the Itchen enters Winchester at last, by the South Gate, after passing St Cross in the meads.