Mrs Selwyn was frequently away on her travels for weeks at a time, or was about her business, seeing to the numerous flats she let in town and in nearby villages. As long as the weather permitted, Dr Selwyn liked to be out of doors, and especially in the flint-built hermitage in a remote corner of the garden, which he called his folly and which he had furnished with the essentials.

Page 10, The Emigrants, W.G. Sebald.