Estuary House is an old, pre-tudor, farmhouse situated below the town of Gravesend in the Thames marshes made so famous by Dickens in Great Expectations. It stands at a small height above the level pastures which stretch out to the massive stong walls that bound the great river. It belongs, in this year of 1885, to a Miss Leonora Fiske (a retired lady) She has had a good many men-friends, one or two of whom pay her small quarterly allowances, and she has saved money….