CHAPTER TWOSir James Redwell loved the country.
But he found that he was quite indispensable to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in London.
As he often said to himself,
‘Secretaries of State come and go with the change of a Prime Minister, but I go on for ever.’
It was indeed true because he was so experienced and everyone liked working with him.
The Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs always remained at his desk whoever the incumbent was in No. 10 Downing Street.
Sir James had therefore bought himself a house on the Thames that meant only half an hour’s journey to the War Office in the morning.
It had a very large garden and he had filled it with flowers and enjoyed being there even though he so often thought wistfully about his glorious ancestral home in the Cou
