“I will do as you say!” Lord Kiniston exclaimed suddenly. “Anyway twenty thousand pounds is far too much money for a young woman to throw away on a fortune-hunter! Most of them don’t know a good horse from a bad.”
“You are right there,” Willy agreed. “But, if she is setting up a racing stable with that amount of money, I would not mind participating in it myself!”
Lord Kiniston did not say anything more, he merely sat down at the desk and wrote two letters, the first to the Solicitors to say that he would deal with their query in due course and the second to the Ward he had never seen, Lady Charis Langley.
When he had given the letters to an Orderly to send to England with the despatches that left Wellington’s Headquarters every day for London, Lady Lillian came into the room.
She was
