“What do you like?” the Earl enquired.
“I like hearing the stories Miss Taylor tells me and Nanny tells me some too and they are exciting.”
Jane went back into The Castle and the Earl was just leaving the stables when he saw someone coming towards him.
He gave an exclamation of delight.
It was Charles Sinclair, who had arrived, he thought, just when he needed him.
“I thought you would be pleased to see me,” Charles announced. “I have come here at breakneck speed. I slept only for a very short time at a very uncomfortable Posting inn.”
“Why did you not go to Carstairs, where I always stay?” the Earl enquired. “You know James would have been delighted to have you.”
“I know that,” Charles replied. “But it would have taken a great deal longer. I had the idea that you needed me urgently,
