The first owner of the country house, that is now a fairly ordinary hotel despite its exquisite location, was a self made man.
He was followed by drinkers, and gamblers, and entrepreneurs, and gardeners, and hoteliers, and moi.
For a short time in 2010 I was a resident of room 14.
My first window looked north over Exeter, up towards my home, and towards my lover on the East coast of Lincolnshire.
My second window looked south-west towards Dartmoor, where a few years back a long term relationship of mine had come to a sad and fitful end.
Time, they say is the great healer.
Absence, I say is the great pretender.
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