King Charles Street lies in Westminster; you turn a corner and find yourself in Charles Street as one might turn a corner and find oneself in History. The cheap, the nasty, and the new vanish, and fine old comfortable houses of red brick, darkened by weather and fog, take you into their keeping, tell you that Queen Anne is not dead, amuse you with pictures of Sedan chairs and running footmen and discharge you at the other end into the twentieth century from whence you came. Simon Pettigrew lived at No. 12, where his father, his grandfather, and his great-grandfather had lived before him--lawyers all of them. So respected, so rooted in the soil of the Courts as to be less a family of lawyers…
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