CHAPTER SIXErlina came back into the house from the stables.
She had gone riding very early in the morning with Gerry and Tom.
It had been a joy to be on a magnificent horse and she and the two boys had loved every minute of the ride.
She had also taken the opportunity to look at the horse which Oliver Mell wanted to sell to the Marquis.
It was indeed a very fine horse, but she thought personally that one thousand pounds was too much for it.
She knew that gentlemen did pay large sums at Tattersalls Sale Rooms in London.
Yet she was sure that her father would have considered that it was worth only a half of what he was asking for it.
However she had no intention of interfering in what were the Marquis’s private affairs or even offering him her opinion about it.
As she came into the
