“I were a-thinkin’ I could steal some oats for them ’orses,” Carter said, “but they at the farms be as poor as us.”
“Most farmers are in the same state all over the country,” Lalita replied. “But, as his Lordship said, we have to pay our way and that is what I intend we shall do and as I have money – it is not really difficult.”
Swiftly, as if he felt that he must do it surreptitiously, Carter swept up the sovereigns and slipped them into his pocket.
“God ’elp me if ’is Lordship finds out,” he said, “but if ’e does I shall tell ’im as ’twas Eve as tempted me!”
“The age-old excuse of every man,” Lalita laughed.
At the same time she was delighted to have had her own way.
She knew that Lord Heywood, like most men, would accept food when it was there and not ask too many questions as to
