It also described the French furniture and made a special reference to the beauty of the private Chapel and the Master bedroom. Georgina read it from beginning to end and she wondered who on earth could have made such an enticing story out of The Castle. Of course the local people had come from time to time, but she could not believe that the Lord Lieutenant or anyone like him would have written in the newspaper. But, whoever it was, it was someone who actually knew The Castle, someone who was aware that Alister, as the new Earl, had been abroad for years. ‘Whoever has done it has made mischief,’ Georgina thought. ‘Now things might not be quite as easy as they have appeared.’ She was afraid that before Alister had really settled down and had learnt all she wanted him to know about the

