Hide and Seek for Love by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-908411-37-2
Publisher: Barbara Cartland.com

CHAPTER FIVE

David came in late for breakfast and Benina looked at him questioningly.

Newman had already opened up the breakfast room and swept away most of the dust. It was a pretty room with long windows overlooking the garden and as it faced East, it received the first rays of the sun.

He had arranged their breakfast in the way it always had been in what he spoke of as ‘the good old days’.

“I am sorry I am late,” said David, as he entered.

“I wondered what had happened to you, my Lord,” remarked Benina.

“I went to see Cosnet to tell him that he was to take over the garden.”

Cosnet was the man he had been told had hidden himself away so that he could keep his cottage and his son had secretly helped Nanny and looked after the horses.

“What I have arranged,” declared David serving himself eggs and bacon, “is that Cosnet will do what he can in the garden until I find him some more help. Ben, his son, will groom the horses and run messages.”

Benina laughed.

“He will be kept busy.”

“I thought you would say that, Benina, as I just sent him on one that will meet with your approval.”

“What can that be?”

“I have told him to instruct the butcher to give the pensioners sufficient meat and sausages for three days and then to repeat the order until I tell him to stop.”

Benina clapped her hands together.

“Oh, my Lord, only you could have done anything so wonderful. They will be so thrilled.”

“I only hope they will be and I have also told Ben to tell the grocer to give them bread, butter and cheese. At least they will not starve.”

For a moment Benina could not speak and then she exclaimed,

“I did not think anyone with your name could be so marvellous!”

“It is what I will have to be in the future, whether I like it or not. I just cannot have the Marquis of Inglestone going down in posterity as an evil monster!”

“That is just what I think your grandfather was.”

“Now, what we must convene, as soon as we have finished breakfast, is a Council of War. So please will you tell Newman and Nanny to come to the study and you and I will be waiting for them there.”

Benina gave a little laugh.

“Everything is becoming more and more exciting. I was beginning to think I was living in a backwater where nothing ever happened, except that Nanny and I grew older every minute.”

“Now you have to be young again! And I think you are already making a good job of it.”

David looked at her as he spoke.

With the sun shining through the windows onto her golden hair, she looked ethereally lovely.

At the same time he was aware that her blue dress was the same one she had worn the day before and the day before that – it was patched and darned in several places.

However, he told himself it was too soon to worry about clothes as, if their next exploration was as dirty as it had been yesterday, it was clearly no use wearing anything decent.

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