He had also been extremely rich, but it was most unfortunate that during the War against Napoleon, as had happened with so many families, the estate had ceased to be profitable and much money had been lost in Bank failures.
There were indeed the valuable contents of Shenley House in the country, which had been collected by the family over many centuries. But these were all entailed onto the heirs to the title.
Unfortunately, because a number of Shenleys had been killed both at sea with Nelson and on the battlefield with Wellington, there was no heir after Terry.
Sybil had been left an allowance by her father, so it had never struck Kyla for one instant that she would be greedy enough to try to obtain everything that was Terry’s by right of birth.
He was a dear little boy who had arrive
