CHAPTER SEVENGeorgina took charge as if she had been her father.
Dawson was told to find five footmen all who had been in the Army and were used to handling a gun.
The two scullions employed in the kitchen and who brought in the coal were ex-Army men.
She increased the number of housemaids until there were enough to open all the rooms that had been closed and clean them thoroughly for the first time in years.
She herself nursed Alister and, as the doctor had ordered, she slept in the sitting room with the door open so that she could hear if he woke in the night.
He was, however, suffering from loss of blood and the wound in his head made him oblivious of everything.
Looking at him lying in bed so handsome and so strong in himself, it seemed to Georgina horrifying that he should suffe
