A tired American businessman and a psychiatrist take a motor tour of the West Country — Stonehenge, Avebury, Salisbury, Glastonbury — and talk, for a week, about the man's marriage, his mistress and what is wrong with him. Wells trained under Darwin's champion Huxley and brought a biologist's eye to fiction; this 1922 novel is barely disguised autobiography, and the stones are the only thing not talking.