“I promise you I have been into it very carefully, my Lord, in both the main houses, besides counting the other assets on the estate itself. But once again I am afraid that there is little or nothing that your Lordship can sell.”
“What about trees?”
“Those that were of any use were cut down during the early years of the War. Those that remain are either too old or too young and not suitable for ships’ timbers or for building houses.”
“There must be something!” Lord Heywood said and, however much he tried to control it, there was a note of desperation in his voice.
He was aware that he himself was in debt. It was for quite a large sum because there had been considerable drains on his purse this past year. It was not, as people might have supposed, because he had spent money on the beaut
