CHAPTER FIVEDavid came in late for breakfast and Benina looked at him questioningly.
Newman had already opened up the breakfast room and swept away most of the dust. It was a pretty room with long windows overlooking the garden and as it faced East, it received the first rays of the sun.
He had arranged their breakfast in the way it always had been in what he spoke of as ‘the good old days’.
“I am sorry I am late,” said David, as he entered.
“I wondered what had happened to you, my Lord,” remarked Benina.
“I went to see Cosnet to tell him that he was to take over the garden.”
Cosnet was the man he had been told had hidden himself away so that he could keep his cottage and his son had secretly helped Nanny and looked after the horses.
“What I have arranged,” declared David serving h
