CHAPTER TWOJoanna, walking around the family home, felt that she was seeing it for the first time.
Because she had always been busy rushing off to a party or waiting for her friends to arrive to play tennis and then later in the year they would go dancing, she had never looked at her home in a critical manner.
Now that it had become hers she felt that she was looking at something she had never seen before.
To her horror it looked as though The Four Gables required a great deal of attention.
The servants had been with her father and mother for many years and had grown old themselves.
Perhaps they had not noticed that there were marks on the walls which should not be there or worse still the wallpaper was torn and dirty especially near the floors and it had been pushed together without
