“Nevertheless it should be seen to.”
The Earl drew a small notebook from the pocket of his coat and wrote in it.
Then he said,
“I have brought your pension and in future it will be trebled, but this week there is a little more in the packet than usual.”
“That’s ever so kind of you, Master Gerald, very kind indeed,” Nanny sighed, “but then you always were a generous one. You’re like your dear mother who, as I’ve often told you, was the givin’ sort and it all came from her heart.”
“That is what is important, is it not, Nanny? And it was you who taught me that to give a present with love counts a dozen times more than if it is given with disapproval and contempt.”
Although she did not turn her head, Prunella was aware that he glanced in her direction and she knew that what he was saying
