CHAPTER IIIBy eight o’clock on Monday morning all three young Beltons had left the house and returned to their respective jobs. Mr. Belton had his usual local and county work to do, and as he had his estate office in the East Pavilion his life, apart from coming back to Arcot House to eat and sleep instead of to the Park, was not much changed. Mrs. Belton, grimly and efficiently seconded by Wheeler, well-meaningly though temperamentally by the cook, and zealously though ineffectively by Florrie Wheeler, aged sixteen, very soon had her household organized. The Red Cross working party that used to meet once a week at Harefield Park now met at Arcot House, and Mrs. Belton found that she enjoyed the various meetings at Plassey House, Clive’s Corner, or Dowlah Cottage all the more that she coul
