So much depended on his visit.
If anything went wrong, she was aware that there would be many more bills to meet than there had been a week ago and she had no idea how they could pay them.
She had found a man in the village who had come up to help Humber and who would carry the luggage upstairs.
He had been in service when he was young, but he had now gone into partnership with the blacksmith.
He did not wish to go back to the days when he was, as he had said, a slave taking orders from anyone who wished to give them to him.
It was only because Kezia’s father had always been kind to him when he gave a hand during the hunting season that he now condescended to come to the house for the two nights that the Marquis was staying with them.
“I ain’t wearin’ no livery, miss!” he had stipula
