She looked, David pondered, very young and very unsophisticated.
At the same time ‘beautiful’ was the right word to describe her.
‘One day,’ he mused, ‘I must give her a dress that is as expensive as Stella’s to frame her beauty as she should be framed – ’
With a sigh he recalled that it entirely depended on whether they found his grandfather’s money.
He had changed into evening dress for the first time since he had come back to Ingle Hall.
It would have seemed out of place when they were eating at a small table in the study, but correct for a formal occasion in the dining room.
Newman had risen to the moment.
There were four magnificent silver candlesticks on the table as well as a huge ornamental goblet that was three hundred years old.
The pictures round the wall were all of the
