- NIGHT - TITLE SEQUENCE

               A series of traveling shots. A well-dressed, pompous-looking 
               individual (JOHN DASHWOOD, 35) is making an urgent journey 
               on horseback. He looks anxious.

               EXT. NORLAND PARK - ENGLAND - MARCH 1800 - NIGHT

               Silence. Norland Park, a large country house built in the 
               early part of the eighteenth century, lies in the moonlit 
               parkland.

               INT. NO