3 THE APPRENTICESHIPOn the Sunday afternoon after their return, Daisy said to her father after lunch, “Dad, I am ready to help you in any way you want to use me. I want to be your right-hand man, girl, or, er, woman, whichever you care to think of me as. I think that our affairs are best kept within the family, so, if you like, I will take over Tony’s job as your deputy from tomorrow”.
She had expected, or at least hoped for another hug from her hero for that declaration of loyalty, but she was disappointed again, not that she had let such things show on her pretty face for many years.
“Tony has been with me for thirty-odd years… You can’t just step into his shoes like that, my dear… and anyway, what on Earth would your mother say? Tony has a dangerous job. I can’t put you in his positio
