Chapter 2Lord Milborne, reading the newspaper with his leg raised on a stool in front of him, heard a door open and turned his head expectantly.
There was the sound of footsteps coming across the hall and then his daughter, Salrina, came into the room.
Her eyes looked worried and one glance told him that she was bringing bad news.
“Well?” he asked uncompromisingly.
“Hewitt cannot do it, Papa,” Salrina said. “He is nearly crippled with rheumatism this time and could hardly let me into the cottage.”
“Damnation!” Lord Milborne exclaimed. “That means I lose three hundred guineas!”
“Oh, not as much as that, Papa!” Salrina exclaimed.
She ran across the room to kneel down beside her father’s armchair.
“Did you really sell Orion for three hundred guineas?”
“He is worth every penny of it,”
