The answer appears on the sixty-sixth page of the book.

How can you be sure that these cases are good law? How do you know that these cases have not been overruled or reversed?

The King looked at the motionless figure, at the little crowd of hushed expectant rustics beyond the bridge, and finally at the face of Chandos, which shone with amusement.

the road traversed the face of the ridge as the right-of-way climbed the mountain