Chapter FourDriving to Church the Duke found himself thinking about Lorena.
It was only a short distance and it was a tradition that in the winter he drove in his closed brougham and in the summer in an open Victoria, as his father and mother had always done.
If he had suggested going by car, he was quite certain that there would have been a revolution amongst the old servants.
When Robert Adam had built Mere on the site of an older house, he had not, as was usual for the period, included a private Chapel because there was already a very beautiful Norman Church just inside the park.
It was part of the history of the family and the elaborate tombs, added to down the centuries, enriched the ancient building.
It was the Duke’s father who had decided that the whole household must attend C
