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Now the Pentlands are old John, a rugged figure with a wild red mare and a study smelling of woodsmoke, dogs, apples and whiskey; his wife, a wretched lunatic shut in the mansion's east wing since the birth of her son; Anson Pentland, that son, the scrimshank genealogist; Olivia, the Chicago politician's daughter whom Anson only married to produce the necessary heir; Sybil, their alert daughter, and Jack, the sickly heir, whose funeral is celebrated with fitting Pentland pomp on a stony hill in his sixteenth year.