“I have enjoyed myself there, but, now I have come home, I expect I will have to live a very different life. I hope that there will be someone to tell me all about it.”
“My father liked being alone with me,” Georgina answered. “Therefore I am afraid that I am the only person who can answer completely all the questions you will feel obliged to ask. I think I am right in saying that you came here last as a boy.”
“I came here last when I was at University just for a luncheon with your father. But I stayed here I think when I was ten or eleven. I much enjoyed riding his horses.”
“The stables are still full,” Georgina told him and she managed, as she spoke, to force a smile to her lips.
“I expected that,” Alister replied. I was told over and over again how much your father loved his horses
