‘I wish Papa had gone to see him when we first moved,’ she thought, ‘and told him the desperate straits we found ourselves in.’
Then she knew that her father would never have humiliated himself more than he had been already.
It was the pride of the Rockbournes that had made him face death rather than plead with the Earl for indulgence.
‘I suppose I should have pride too,’ Marista murmured. ‘But I had not only myself to think about but Letty and Anthony.’
She walked on and now she was praying that the Earl would help her and allow them to stay at the house and perhaps in some way she could not quite determine he would find a better job for Anthony than he had at the moment.
Perhaps he would think it a humiliation to be in the Earl’s employment, but, if it was a post of some authority w
