“They were happy. When your father saw the floor, he put his arms round your mother and swung her round the room to show her and me that the floor was so perfect is Lor
that it was almost impossible for anyone who saw it not to dance on it at once!”
Joanna laughed.
“I can imagine Mama and Papa swinging round,” she said. “That is what we have to do at The Castle, but we must somehow find more money for the other rooms which will require, just as the ballroom does, new floors, new windows and definitely new and pretty walls.”
There was silence for a moment.
Then Mr. Forest said,
“I thinks, in your own way, that you’re makin’ The Castle a credit to the County. Although it’s a big job, we can be sure that the other Counties around us will want to show off their own great stately homes.
