The Country House is a romance novel by the famed author and Nobel Prize winner John Galsworthy. Horace Pendyce is a distinguished gentleman of no little income. His friends the Bellews and the Winlows are frequent diners at his mansion. But when rumors abound that the Bellews are to split up, he is alarmed. Especially when he hears that his son George is a little too closely associated with Mrs. Bellews.