Author's Preface Perhaps it can be inferred that the events described in this book roughly occurred between 1840 and 1850. At that time, the ancient seaside resort called Beileikou in this book still retained all kinds of singing and dancing, charming and charming since the Georgian Dynasty. However, for an inland resident with a lively nature, this place still has a great attraction for his romantic sentiment and rich imagination. The story takes place throughout the place which is named Aydon's Moor, which provides a bleak and melancholy background for the story, a name which synthesizes or represents a number of moors, each with their own true name, of at least a dozen and though they are identical in character and topography, their original unity or partial unity has now been more or less destroyed by the unequal ridges of cultivation, or by artificially planted patches of woods.

Thinking of a wider and remote area, its southwest is the place described in this book. Somewhere may be the legendary King Lear of Wessex [Note: Note: Shakespeare's tragedy "King Lear" protagonist. ] This reverie is pleasant. [Note] In July 1895, a region in southwestern England, including Dorset, was the seat of Wessex in the Seven Kingdoms era.