Written for readers who have finished Book 1.
Fenwick is the mapmaker who crosses the col each spring and autumn — the col-house's newspaper and its window on the wider road. It was travellers' word, carried by men like him, that first named the place "the kettle house." He keeps an accurate, unsentimental eye on everything, which is exactly why his quiet verdict — on the house, and on the people passing through it — is worth having.