CHAPTER SIXWhen the Earl returned back to The Castle having said ‘goodbye’ to Joanna and had promised Truscott that he would come again very shortly to discuss with him what should be done on his farm, he was so delighted with what he had now planned and Joanna’s fantastic help that it was difficult for him to think of anything else.
It was in fact only as he then turned in at the gates which, like the rest of The Castle, wanted repairing that he remembered that Lady Carisford would be here waiting for him.
‘If there is one thing I don’t want at the moment,’ he told himself, ‘it is a woman who is obviously making a fuss of me just because I have a title. She is interrupting my plans which I find so exciting that it is difficult for me to think or talk about anything else.’
One thing, h
