“The trouble is, Mama, we would have to buy the materials first to make the products and you know that we don’t have the money for that.”
Mrs. Campbell sighed.
It was true that they were finding it very hard to pinch and scrape as the Earl kept on telling them that they must.
*
But somehow the years passed.
The War came to an end.
“Now everything will get better,” the Colonel said.
Sadly this did not happen.
Although there were men returning to the country from the Army, many estates like the Earl’s needed a great deal done to them and there was apparently not the money available.
As they were bored with sitting about with nothing to do, two of the men in the village would come up to the stables to talk to the Colonel and give him a hand.
In return he somehow, almost by a miracle
