‘I’d love to.’
‘But that is for another day; there is no hurry. Now we must celebrate and be happy.’
She turned to look out of the window, over the broad gardens of Willdon, across to the woods beyond.
‘It is beautiful here, you know,’ she said quietly. ‘We can make something truly wonderful of it, this time.’
Acknowledgements
With thanks for help, support and advice to Ruth Harris, Alex Pears, Michael Pears, David Brown, Felicity Bryan, Catherine Clarke, Bouzha Cookman, Loren Eskenazi, Josie Gardiner, Michael Holyoke, Andrew Katz, Bill Lehr, Lyndal Roper, Mark Rowse, Sarah Savitt, Alex Scott, Nick Stargardt, André Stern, Henry Volans, Simon Whitaker.