She did not say openly to Michael Farrow that she thought Kitty might in the Earl’s absence help herself to anything valuable that took her fancy.
She was quite certain Kitty would have tried to take the snuff-boxes when she left Chart Hall. Michael Farrow did not speak for a moment. Then he said,
“I wonder, Miss Pandora, if you’d think it a good idea if my father took Mr. Winslow with him to check the contents?”
“Mr. Winslow?” Pandora questioned.
Then she remembered that he had been the Headmaster of the big school in Lindchester until he had retired to the village, and her parents had found him to be a very intelligent man.
“He often tells my father how interested he is in the history of Chart Hall and the family collection,” Michael Farrow explained.
Pandora’s eyes lit up.
Here,
