As she finished speaking, she realised that Alister had been listening to her attentively.
He had obviously no idea that this was expected of him.
“It may be difficult for you,” Georgina went on, “to understand exactly what I am saying. But if you had been at Papa’s funeral which, as he had died so suddenly, was attended by very few of the family but by almost everyone on the estate, you would have known what he meant to them and how unhappy they were at losing him.”
She was thinking as she spoke how the women had cried and how the men had appeared tight-lipped and pale when they carried his coffin.
They were upset not just because he had employed them but because ever since they had been born the Earl of The Castle had been of great consequence in their lives.
They had felt, although
