CHAPTER FIVEChesterton Castle was one of the oldest in the country.
"That's why it's so special," Gina enthused as they went to look at the moat. "A real Norman castle, one of the first built by William the Conqueror on lands given by him to Baron Guy le Chester."
She sounded as though she was reciting a lesson learned by heart.
"Was it?" John asked.
"Don't pretend that you don't know," she chided him, laughing. "This is your heritage, your glory. When I think how you must swell with pride to think that you are descended from Baron Guy le Chester, Swithin Chester who fought with the Black Prince, Algernon Chester who was one of Queen Elizabeth's courtiers –"
"I hate to disappoint you," he interrupted her hastily, "but I do not swell with pride. When I was a boy I thought it was an int
