She kept telling herself when they were driving from farm to farm and through land that was being cultivated in the most modern manner, that it was easy for someone as rich as Doran –
And yet she had to acknowledge that it was more than just money.
He has new ideas and he is putting them into practice, while he was well aware that the majority of farmers were standing off their labourers because the War was over and that meant that the price of crops had fallen.
Doran, on the other hand, had taken on more men and found a market for what they produced and was not only felling trees but planting them too.
Because she was curious, Aleda could not help asking him,
“How is it that you know so much about English farming when you say that you have been abroad for a long time?”
“I was brough
