Chapter Five“Gerry is late!” Tony declared.
“I expect he is riding and has forgotten the time,” Olivia replied.
They both knew that Gerald rode early every morning to look at the farms and the slate mine.
Then quite suddenly he arrived for breakfast with them.
“If there is anything I dislike,” he remarked, “it is eating alone!”
Olivia was aware that if he could he would have stayed with them at Green Gables.
But there was no room and he had to stay at Chad Hall whether he liked it or not and she thought perhaps that he was lonely in the Big House.
That was another thing the Earl would be when he had recovered from his injury.
It might set him even more against people than he was already.
And he would be even more suspicious that they were deceiving him in some way.
But it was no
