Chapter 16: London“Do you want to come to town with me one day next week?”
Phil had been thinking about it for a while and the words sort of tumbled out without him processing them too much as his attention drifted from the farm accounts he was supposed to be streamlining.
They were in the sitting room. Laurie was laid out on the settee, tired after an excursion across the yard to the barn to check on a heifer about to produce her first calf that had turned in to a bit of a performance. It had only ended happily because of the appearance of Cat, whose small hands had eased the new calf into the world with no trouble. Laurie was cross with himself because he hadn’t been able to help the cow himself, but between them, he and Cat had done pretty well in Phil’s opinion.
It had set him think
