``It is a defect of God\'s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.``--Tom Stoppard, Arcadia In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge.
Through the window may be seen some of the ``five hundred acres inclusive of lake`` where Capability Brown\'s idealized landscape is about to give way to the Gothic style: ``everything but vampires,`` as the garden histo. ``It is a defect of God\'s humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.``--Tom Stoppard, Arcadia In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge