Chapter two“It’s impossible!”
“It is not!”
They had argued for nearly two hours. The butler had brought in breakfast and had set down in front of the fire a table laden with silver dishes containing every sort of delicacy, which had made Tina exclaim with delight,
“This is very different from school!”
Lord Wynchingham would have waved everything away distastefully, but finally he had been persuaded to partake of a lamb cutlet and to wash it down with a glass of brandy.
The servants removed the remains of the meal and then they were at it once again,
Tina putting forward her plan of campaign, Lord Wynchingham objecting and then finally capitulating with a bad grace.
He might have argued more forcibly if he had not, during their conversation, sat down at his desk in the centre of the
