CHAPTER FOURDinner was rather late.
Benina insisted on bringing it into the study where they were more comfortable.
She made David chuckle by telling him how Nanny had thought that the five pound note he had given her must be fake.
At first she had laughed and put it on the table.
“Then what happened?” asked David.
Benina hesitated before replying,
“It was kept a secret from the Marquis, but I would suppose it’s all right to tell you, my Lord?”
“Tell me what?”
“Well, one of the gardeners who was here for years was instructed to leave and your grandfather thought that he had given up his cottage. But he managed to find work in the village and therefore never left it.”
She threw up her hands.
“Of course, we were most grateful to him because he occasionally brought us vegetables wh
