“It is what you shall have,” Charles promised.
They enjoyed breakfast enormously.
Then Charles said that he would go ahead and make arrangements for them to put all their furniture either in the ballroom or, if it was possible, at the back of the house where he had stables for his horses.
“There are some things which would be safer inside the house,” Nicholas said. “But I can assure you, my Lord, that we are most grateful. You are saving me from what I thought would be a long and arduous task in trying to find somewhere suitable.”
“They will be safe with me,” Charles nodded. “I am looking forward to laughing half the night as I used to do.”
“I would expect now we are older,” Ivor said, “that we will creep into bed and be glad that the women do not keep us up as late as they did when
