Snowy. Tim Harris

      I did not stop to think or lose the chance of payen some of the score back that I owed.

      Fearing the man was badly hurt, Fred fled to the nearest town, probably King’s Lynn, from where he took a train to Manchester. By then Anna was pregnant again When Fred left that night to save his own skin, it seems he thought very little of his wife’s, for there is no record that the two ever met again.

      It is not perhaps surprising that Lilias Rider Haggard writes in the preface to I Walked by Night that it was only with the greatest reluctance that Fred talked about his much-loved first wife – he must have been deciding which fib to tell next!