He remembered too the pats of golden butter from the Jersey herd and cheese that was made fresh every other day.
Then there were sculleries, a very large servants’ hall, the housekeeper’s room, the boot room, the knife room and various other offices, before he reached the yard.
He did not stop to look around, but walked on as he knew that this was the quickest way to the stables.
As he expected, he found that his groom was the only person there and had just finished putting the horses into four different stalls.
He saw at a glance that the roof needed repairing and the stable itself was badly in need of paint.
The stalls were comparatively clean and, as he saw the other two horses in them, he had an idea that the only person that could have cleaned them must have been his cousin Alvin
