Chapter ThreeThe Duke and Harry sat up late talking over their plans and, when Harry finally retired to bed, he thought it was many years since he had known Buck to be so animated or so enthusiastic about anything.
‘What he always needs is some project that is difficult to keep him interested,’ he told himself.
He thought as he had often done before that if anyone with brains was overwhelmingly rich it was not always an asset.
They had decided they would not say anything to the rest of the party until the last moment.
“If they keep talking it over amongst themselves,” the Duke said wisely, “the Stewards will overhear and I have always believed that servants carry gossip quicker than the pigeons did at the time of the Napoleonic wars!”
They all breakfasted together as usual and Dolly e
