Chapter 41: ThomasThe day after we returned to London, I took Roddy to Savile Row. We’d been out of the country for so long, we both needed new dinner jackets and dress trousers.
Mr Vye was a wonder and promised to have them ready in a week.
While we waited for them, we took our nephews to the Tower of London and Madame Tussauds, which had reopened the year before after the fire in ‘25 had devastated it.
Roddy and I went to Tattersalls to see what horses were being auctioned but didn’t find what we were looking for, another mare to breed with our Arabian stallion.
And when our suits were ready, we took Mother to the King’s Theatre to see Private Lives, as well as a D’Oyly Carte production of The Pirates of Penzance, which enchanted Roddy. He had a clear tenor, and for days afterward he
