He died in a few days, leaving his wife prostrate with grief.
Five months later Wenda had found her mother dead in bed when she called her at eight in the morning. She thought at first that she was sleeping as she looked so happy with a smile on her beautiful lips.
And it seemed impossible that she would not open her large eyes and laugh as she always had.
It was fortunate that Robbie was at home rather than in London as he so often was since leaving Oxford and he had taken over everything including the running of the estate and Creswell Court.
Although Wenda was six years younger than him, she managed to help him in many ways that no one else would have been able to do.
It was together they discovered how many debts there were.
Their father had happily enjoyed life with the wife he
