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CHAPTER FIVEHelsa was determined to see the horses jumping. But she thought it would be a mistake, especially as people from the village might be there, for her to go to the paddock. She therefore walked to the West wing of The Hall where one of her many ancestors, who was apparently very eccentric in his ways, had added a Palladian tower. From it he could look over the estate and see what everyone was doing. She had not been up the tower for years and the steps were very dusty, but when she reached the pinnacle it was exactly as it had always been. There were windows all round it so that one could see for miles in every direction. As a child she had discovered the skylight and she had been brave enough to climb through it onto the very top of the tower. The skylight was still there