Chapter SixArriving back at The Castle after riding, Alvina was humming happily to herself.
It was so wonderful to be in a position to engage servants for the house, men to work in the gardens and to be able to assure the pensioners that their cottages would be repaired and their pensions increased.
Already, because news flew on wings, the villagers were aware of what was happening and the excitement was spreading all over the two thousand acres that the Duke owned around The Castle.
Alvina was quite certain that on the Duke’s other properties aa well they had already learned that things were changing and that servants in every department who had been discharged after years of service were being re-employed.
‘It is all so marvellous,’ Alvina said to herself.
She thought that the years
