Later, it is revealed that Claudia is Santonix's half sister and was married to one of Ellie's lawyers, Stanford Lloyd. She offers them to Claudia, who is also allergic. Ellie reveals that although she is allergic to horses, she takes pills to calm her allergies before riding. They start riding horses together regularly. Another villager, Claudia Hardcastle, rides horses and befriends Ellie. Major Phillpot, the local landowner, although not a wealthy man, is seen as the "God" of the village he becomes close with Michael. The newlywed couple spend the next few weeks meeting the villagers. Mike and Ellie discover a folly near the cliffs on their property, which they restore and use as a secret getaway away from others. Ellie entertains the idea of inviting Greta to live with them at the acre, feeling bad for getting her fired, but Michael doesn't like the idea. Ellie is shaken by the incident, but not enough to want to move. On the night they move in, a rock is thrown through their window, telling them to leave the acre. After it's finished, Santonix remarks that this will probably be the last house he ever builds because of his failing health. Once married, they hire Santonix to build a mansion for them on the acre. Regardless, Ellie refuses to leave Michael. They fire Greta for helping arrange the secret marriage. When they find out, they are indeed highly disapproving of Mike. Michael is poor and Ellie fears that her family would not approve of him. They get married in a simple civil ceremony, without her family's knowledge. She doesn't mind leaving her home and family in America to move to England for him. She wants to marry him and help fulfil his dream of building a beautiful house there. When Ellie returns, she reveals to Mike that she is in fact, one of the wealthiest women in America and that she was the person who bought Gipsy's Acre. The situation reads as though she simply disapproves of his spontaneous lifestyle, but Michael claims that his mother knows him all too well.
It's quite clear that he doesn't like his mother and she doesn't like him. He also returns to his mother's house to ask her for money to marry Ellie. While away from Ellie, Michael discovers that the property he wants has finally been bought. Mike then sees Ellie on and off over the next few weeks before she has to travel abroad for her twenty-first birthday. Mike appears incredibly jealous of their close relationship, despite never actually having met Greta before. Apparently, Greta has acted like a best friend to her for several years now and is described as very efficient. Ellie also mentions her lovely hired companion, Greta Andersen. He shares his dream of owning the acre with her and she seems to reciprocate and encourage the idea. They get along quite well and it seems like love at first sight. She introduces herself as Fenella "Goodman," not wanting him to know her true identity as an heiress. While walking through the grounds, he meets Fenella (Ellie) Guteman by chance, a wealthy heiress who wants to escape from her world of snobby friends, begging relatives, and restrictive financial advisors. Michael suspects that this is because of the supposed gipsy’s curse over the property. Several people are interested in buying it, but the bid doesn't go high enough and no one ends up getting the property rights.
Curious to see what an auction is like, he goes to the auction for the property. He fantasises about one day building a house there with the woman he loves. Mike is walking along a village road near the Gipsy's Acre property one day when he falls in love with the grounds. One day he wants to settle down in his dream house with his dream woman, but for now he can't imagine settling down. Michael explains that he’s a “rolling stone” he isn't content doing just one thing and so has held down many different jobs over the years. Mike is poor though, and so can't afford to hire Santonix to build the house he wants.
He plans to one day have a house built by Santonix. The story begins with Michael Rogers, a twenty-two year old, telling the reader about his time as a chauffeur and how he met the architect Rudolf Santonix. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night. The title comes from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence:Įvery night and every morn, Some to misery are born, Every morn and every night, Some are born to sweet delight. It was one of her favourites of her own works and received some of the warmest critical notices of her career upon publication. The UK edition retailed at eighteen shillings (18/-) and the US edition at $4.95. Endless Night is a crime novel by Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 30 October 1967 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year.
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