CHAPTER SIXIona and the Earl caught a few very small fish when they went fishing, but they were hardly worth cooking.
They laughed a lot and Iona thought that the Earl looked happier and less worried that he had been since she arrived.
It was growing late into the afternoon when Mrs. Barley arrived with a parcel of groceries she had ordered and Iona saw her name on a piece of newspaper used to wrap up some sausages.
She quickly cut the piece from the package and as soon as she could she went up to her bedroom to read it.
It was what she had anticipated, but it did give her rather a shock to read,
“A consternation took place yesterday at Langdale Hall when the marriage which had been arranged between The Honourable Iona Langdale and Sir John Moreton had to be postponed.
A large number
