74. Love Lifts The Curse by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: M-Y Books
Published: 2013-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

“Surely that woman can leave now?” the Earl asked as Doctor Faulkner came into his study.

“I was going to speak to you about that, my Lord,” the doctor said quietly.

“She has been here for three days,” the Earl said accusingly, “and the sooner she goes the better I will be pleased!”

“I am well aware of that,” the doctor said, seating himself down in front of the fire, “but she has no money and nowhere to go.”

“That does not concern me!” the Earl retorted sharply. “Hamish sent her here and Hamish can take her away again.”

“It will take some time to write to Hamish and tell him to do so.”

The Earl was frowning and there was a pause before he asserted,

“I want her out of The Castle, you are well aware of that! If she was such a fool as to come here without being authorised to do so, then she must take the consequences!”

The doctor settled himself a little more comfortably in the armchair.

Then he said,

“I have known you, my Lord, since you were a bairn. I have seen you change from a charming, pleasant young man into a hard and sometimes very disagreeable one, but I have never known you cruel either to a human being or to an animal.”

The Earl stared at him as if he was startled.

Then he demanded,

“Are you really saying that to me?”

“I am saying it because there is nobody else, as you well know, who dares to do so,” the doctor said. “I was very fond of your mother and I believe that it would make her extremely unhappy to see the way you are behaving.”

The Earl moved a little uncomfortably in his chair.

He did not reply although Doctor Faulkner was well aware that he was longing to tell him to mind his own business.

The doctor had, however, a very special place not only in the life of The Castle and those who lived in it. He was also loved by everybody in the Clan and they would walk miles to consult him.

There was not a woman on the whole estate who did not want him to deliver her children when they were born.

He knew that was what the Earl was thinking and his eyes were twinkling as he said,

“Now come along, my Lord! You know as well as I do that you will have to pay this child’s fare back to London, or rather to the village where she lived with her father and mother before they died, and her home had to be sold to pay her father’s debts.”

“This has nothing to do with me!” the Earl countered angrily. “You are trying to make me feel sorry for the girl.”

“It was, after all, your dog that bit her,” the doctor reminded him, “and I daresay in a Court of Law she would be awarded damages for what she has suffered.”

The Earl looked at the doctor in astonishment.

“You are not suggesting that she would go to law?”

“She is too young even to

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