CHAPTER SEVEN“It has been a fantastic day,” Lyle said as he kissed Ajanta goodbye. “I have never enjoyed myself so much!”
The young men with him all said the same and Ajanta noticed the admiring looks they gave the Marquis as they enthused over his horses.
It had, Ajanta thought, been one of the happiest days she herself had ever spent and she knew that it was because Lyle’s excitement was infectious.
She was aware how much it meant to him to bring his friends over from Oxford and for them to be able to ride the Marquis’s superb horses round the racetrack and also take part in the point-to-point he had arranged for them.
The excellent luncheon, to which they did full justice, and the excitement of Charis and Darice was all part of Ajanta’s contentment.
‘If only this could go on foreve
