CHAPTER FIVEAs Joanna lay in bed that night, she thought over what had happened and how pleased the Earl had been about the ballroom.
Then she suddenly had another idea.
A long time ago she had heard the Lord Lieutenant saying to her father,
“The trouble with my house is that it is too small for someone in my position in such a large County. When I have people coming day after day to see me, and many of them wanting to have meetings in my house, I do not have a large enough room, as you have, to hold such meetings in.”
There had been a small hesitation before he had continued,
“Worse still my dining room is not large enough for those I have to entertain for luncheon and dinner when they come from the other Counties to discuss the law and many other things that unfortunately all seem
