A fine October morning in the north east suburbs of London, a vast district many miles away from the London of Mayfair and St. James's, much less known there than the Paris of the Rue de Rivoli and the Champs Elysees, and much less narrow, squalid, fetid and airless in its slums; strong in comfortable, prosperous middle class life;
Urriko goiz oskarbi batean, 1894an, Londresko ipar-ekialdeko auzoa; barruti zabala da, Londresko Mayfair eta St James auzoetako girotik hainbeste milia urrunago, eta inondik ere ez hain mehar, osasun-galgarri, kirasdun eta itogarria gune txiroetan. Boladan ez dagoen erdi-mailako bizimodua franko;