Wilkie Collins & Wilkie Collins 
The Queen of Hearts 

WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits‘ end what to do with her.A word about ourselves, first of all—a necessary word, to explain the singular situation of our fair young guest.We are three brothers; and we live in a barbarous, dismal old house called The Glen Tower. Our place of abode stands in a hilly, lonesome district of South Wales. No such thing as a line of railway runs anywhere near us. No gentleman’s seat is within an easy drive of us. We are at an unspeakably inconvenient distance from a town, and the village to which we send for our letters is three miles off.