CHAPTER FOURWith only time to clean one room they settled on the drawing room. John helped her, and proved more adept than she had feared.
“It’s being in the Navy,” he said. “A man develops certain domestic skills.”
He joined her for tea in the kitchen, while she worked out the refreshments she would serve their guests.
“Tell me more about Mr Wyngate,” she said.
“He’s a bit of a mystery man. Nobody knows exactly where he came from, or how he got the money he started with. There’s a rumour that his name isn’t even Wyngate, but nobody knows the truth about that either. However he started, he made a vast fortune in American railroads.”
“You mean he’s American?”
“Not necessarily. That’s just the first place anybody heard of him. He turned up in America, with money that he invested in rai
