“Jasper mending Private Jenks’s broken heart, I expect,” said Leslie. “I believe he has ordered Uncle Harry to tell Lord Pomfret that Tom Jenks is to succeed his father as head keeper after the war. Come on, Crumpet.”
“Noel and I shall simply hate leaving here,” said Lydia, thinking this as good a moment as any other to tell Leslie their plans. “But we can get my old home back, and then we’ll be near my sister at Southbridge School and I can go to the Barchester General.”
Leslie said she would be very sorry when they went, but of course she understood how much Lydia wanted to be in her old home.
“I think I would die if I couldn’t live here,” she said. “My job is all very well, but this is more and more the real thing. And if Cecil agrees, we can turn the Priory into something really use
