“I think – if we are both residents – in the same Parish – it is unnecessary,” Shenda said hesitatingly, “but you could – ask the Parson to make sure.”
“I expect somebody at the Admiralty will be able to tell me,” the Earl replied. “It would be embarrassing to have to confess that I don’t even know the name of my own Vicar!”
Shenda laughed.
“As long as you remember my name and surname, that will be all right.”
“You told me it was Lynd,” the Earl said.
“Shenda Lynd, and Papa used to hunt with the pack of foxhounds your father, the late Earl, supported when he was well enough to do so. In fact he was known as the ‘Hunting Parson’!”
“I seem to remember people speaking about him when I was a child,” the Earl remarked.
Then he looked at Shenda and asked,
“I still cannot understand why,
