He suspected that since there were no gamekeepers to keep a watch there had been plenty of locals who were prepared to risk the heavy penalties of being caught rather than remain hungry.
‘Surely things cannot be so bad in the countryside?’ Lord Heywood asked himself and knew that this was yet another question that he must find an answer to.
It was still very early and the mist was hanging over the lake when finally they came in sight of the house.
Heywood Abbey had been built originally by Cistercian monks, but practically nothing of the original Abbey remained.
It was the second Lord Heywood who had commissioned Robert Adam when he was still a young man to build him a house that he considered was the right background for his considerable pretensions.
It was therefore an extremely imp
