“I am sure that was what the Earl wanted,” responded Lolita. “But perhaps fate or rather his poverty was against him. As you must be aware, my Lord, those pictures are today very valuable.”
“I have always understood that the Earl died without having a son, but I would have thought some relation would have come forward and demanded to be allowed to keep just a few of the treasures in the family.”
He spoke almost harshly – it was as if he was accusing him of giving up his heritage without even fighting to preserve it.
“I am sure that was what the Earl wanted to happen, but of course he would not have sold the Priory in the first place if he had not been forced to do so.”
She spoke a little truculently and Lord Seabrook smiled.
“I see you are defending him,” he said, “but at the time by
