He paused for a moment.
“You are allowed to go in and out of the Hall as you please and His Grace’s servants will take orders from you as if, as he pointed out, you were actually his daughter.”
“I do not believe he could have said all that!” exclaimed Della.
“He said all that and a great deal more. He made it quite clear that if you and I did not help him in this, the most important moment of his life, he had no wish to see either of us again!”
Della sank down into the nearest chair.
She was thinking that if anyone else but her uncle had said this to her, she would not believe them. But he was a gentleman who always spoke the truth, which was why he was always so respected.
Della recognised only too well what it would mean if all the comforts they obtained from the Marchwood estate w
