Who Or What Was It?

Who or What was It?I want to tell you about a very odd experience I had a few months ago, not so as to entertain you but because I think it raises some very basic questions about, you know, what life is all about and to what extent we run our own lives. Rather worrying questions. Anyway, what happened was this:My wife and I had been staying the weekend with her uncle and aunt in Westmorland, near a place called Milnthorpe. Both of us--Jane and I, that is--had things to do in London on the Monday...