Because Olivia felt like crying, she did not answer.
She only hurried Gerald away down the passage that led to the back door.
They went out and passing between the rhododendron bushes made their way to the stables.
As they neared them, to Olivia’s surprise, she heard laughter and the clapping of hands.
As the last of the bushes ended, they walked through an arched gateway.
In the cobbled yard they saw what was happening.
The grooms were all watching Tony and he was giving a display on one of the older horses of what Olivia called his ‘circus tricks’.
She knew only too well how he could stand on a horse’s back while it was trotting.
Then, if they were on smooth ground, he could put his head on the saddle with his legs in the air.
In the holidays he had been to every circus in the v
