CHAPTER TWOHelsa was up at The Hall long before they expected Lady Basset to arrive.
She immediately went up to the room that had been her grandmother’s to find that everything was clean and tidy and the room itself looked extremely inviting.
She had mentioned to Mr. Martin that there must be flowers in every room and she noted with satisfaction that her instructions had been carried out. Cosnet had picked armfuls of beautiful blooms and they had been extremely well arranged, Helsa thought, by the new housekeeper.
She was an elderly woman, a certain Mrs. Walters, who had lived in the village all her life, but she was rather better educated and came from a superior family to most of the villagers.
Helsa inspected the wardrobe and the dressing table so that she would know exactly where t
