What interested him most was that he had found the answer to what had been puzzling him about the Ashleys.
For the first time he learned that Andrew Ashley was the younger son of Lord Ashbrook.
He had been ordained after leaving Cambridge University and he had insisted, however, before he accepted one of the Livings on his father’s estate, that he would explore the world first.
He had therefore left England for nearly three years and had travelled all over Europe, visited the East and on his way home went to St. Petersburg.
From there he journeyed on to Denmark.
“The moment I saw Louise,” the Vicar related, “I recognised that she was the one person I had been looking for all my life.”
“And I felt the same about Andrew,” Mrs. Ashley added softly.
“It was very cruel of you to steal he
