She stared at the high beamed ceiling, the long diamond-paned windows and the magnificently carved mantelpiece, thinking she was witnessing a part of history.
She felt as if she could almost step back into the past and would find herself with a ruffle round her neck and being a dutiful admiring servant of Queen Elizabeth.
Then, because she felt that she must share her thoughts with Georgina, she said,
“Can you imagine what it was like when the monks were here and the Prior, who was a very holy man, taught them how they must help and feed anyone who came to the door?”
“Did they do that?” Georgina quizzed her.
“Beggars were never turned away and, when the winters were hard and cold, there would not only be human beings who were hungry, but birds, deer, hares and rabbits. They all truste
