Love, Lies and Marriage by Barbara Cartland

Author:Barbara Cartland
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781782131779
Publisher: Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd
Published: 2012-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

When Teresa walked into the hall, she realised that the house looked very unlived in.

Through an open door she could see into what she thought must be the drawing room.

All the furniture was covered in Hollands and the blinds were half-drawn.

She started to go upstairs to follow Harry, who was now out of sight.

As she reached the landing, an elderly woman came hurrying towards her.

She curtsied saying,

“I’ve just heard the news, my Lady, that you’re married to his Lordship. I wish you both all the happiness in the world – but is he hurt?”

“He has been shot in the arm,” Teresa explained.

The woman gave a cry of horror before she said,

“I must see him at once! I should explain, my Lady, I’m his Lordship’s Nanny, but I’ve retired to a cottage in the grounds.”

“Then I am sure, Nanny, you are the one person we need at this moment,” Teresa said. “I am trying to find out how to send for the doctor.”

“Mr. Dawson’ll see to that,” Nanny answered. “I’ll tell him you want him.”

Nanny hurried away towards the room at the end of the passage and Teresa thought that it must be the Master suite.

She felt that, with Banks and Nanny tending to Harry, there would be nothing for her to do.

It would be best for her to concentrate on sending for the doctor as she stood hesitating whether to stay upstairs or go down.

Then the man with grey hair whom she now knew to be the butler came hurrying towards her.

“Nanny tells me, my Lady,” he said, “that you want to send for the doctor.”

“I think we should have one immediately,” Teresa replied.

“I’ll see to it, my Lady.”

He went down the stairs and Teresa followed him.

By the time she had reached the hall, he had disappeared.

She looked into the drawing room and then into a room next to it, which she realised was the library.

She could see that the rooms were very attractive with their diamond-paned windows, but all the furniture was covered up.

It was therefore difficult to imagine what the house had been like when Harry’s mother and father had lived there.

Dawson came back.

“I’ve sent for the doctor, my Lady,” he said. “He lives at the end of the village.”

“Thank you,” Teresa said. “I understand you are the butler.”

“So I was, my Lady,” Dawson replied to her, “but since his Lordship and her Ladyship was killed, there be only me and Mrs. Dawson to do everything.”

Quite suddenly, almost as if her father was guiding her, Teresa knew what she must do. This was Harry’s home and, because he was angry, he had come here like a little boy running for comfort to his mother and had been injured in the process.

Aloud she said,

“You were here at the time his Lordship’s parents were alive?”

“I’ve been here nigh on thirty years, my Lady,” Dawson said, “but things has been very dull and quiet with the house empty.”

“Then what we must do now,” Teresa said, “is to restore everything to how it was when his Lordship’s parents were here.

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