She had approximately five hundred pounds a year, while everything else in The Castle belonged to Alister, who appeared at his father’s funeral and instantly took over in a manner that told Lily without words that her days there were numbered.
Fortunately she had anticipated what would happen and she had already made plans for where she could stay in London.
She had learnt after she was married that Sir Ewan had a sister who had married one of the senior Officers who had been stationed in Edinburgh Castle.
When General Sir Alexander Rushton retired, he and his wife had gone South to London, where Lily knew they had a house in Belgrave Square.
She had persuaded Sir Ewan, who did not particularly like his brother-in-law, to invite them to the opening of the grouse season on the twelfth o
