CHAPTER SIXSir John came down to breakfast feeling that he had slept for at least a hundred years.
He had been very tired when finally they had gone upstairs to bed.
They had sat up late because there was so much to talk about and so much to explain to Melita of what she had inherited by coming to this magnificent house.
Sir John could not help feeling that he was glad that his father had done so much work on it already, due to the way Gavron Murillo had made him rich.
He would have been ashamed for her to have seen it when it was literally falling down and every room was more unkempt than the last.
He had shown her proudly the main sitting rooms after they had finished dinner.
He was as thrilled as she was at the pictures, the statues, the armoury and the library full of the books t
