‘Papa says the big house won’t be finished in time for our wedding celebration, Teddy.’
‘That does not concern me, Catherine,’ Tedder comforted, ‘we will marry in the same church your parents were married in and return to this farm for the celebration. It matters not if the new, big house is finished. Your father and I and Blay, and Roger Gavin and Robert Bishop can’t work any faster. It will be done when it is done. I know your father wants it finished, and sometimes I wonder if he is concerned he will die before it is completed. But running the farm and the Stores consumes time.’
He caressed Catherine’s face and neck with his lips, while his hand disappeared up her skirts. They had become adept at finding secluded places for their trysts, but Tedder had a feeling that Mrs Cullen knew a
