He is
of Romany descent; his father is a farm
labourer, and his grandmother, who brought him up, and claims to have second sight, works at the Abbey as a cleaner — but Dan, who has won a scholarship to Cambridge, is on the cusp
of change, about to abandon his home, his family and his
class.
The
Labourers who built the tombs
of Pharoahs were on upper middle
class, as it were, paid in grain which they traded in the markets.