Easterleigh Hall (2014)
“Mrs Moore was concerned for Evie. ‘I’m not a fool, I know perfectly well who the fox in the henhouse was,’ she snapped at Evie, and her outrage seemed to energise her. Within days the swelling and pain subsided and there was no gin top-up in her tea. So, good things come out of hiccups, Evie told herself.
The atmosphere in the servants’ hall was lighter without Roger, much as the weather now that they were into May. ‘Can’t believe it’s just little more than a month since I arrived,’ Evie said a...s she started on the salt-bake mix which she would wrap around the roasting veal, and ten days since Roger had attacked her. ‘Aye, it seems to have galloped along,’ Mrs Moore murmured as they worked together preparing dinner on Wednesday afternoon. ‘It’ll all calm down a bit now with Lord Brampton gone, and I daresay we won’t have to fiddle about with tea for his young ones for a while. They won’t need the succour, and it’s grand he won’t be laying hands on Mr Auberon for a while.’ Evie stopped in her mixing.MoreLess
The atmosphere in the servants’ hall was lighter without Roger, much as the weather now that they were into May. ‘Can’t believe it’s just little more than a month since I arrived,’ Evie said a...s she started on the salt-bake mix which she would wrap around the roasting veal, and ten days since Roger had attacked her. ‘Aye, it seems to have galloped along,’ Mrs Moore murmured as they worked together preparing dinner on Wednesday afternoon. ‘It’ll all calm down a bit now with Lord Brampton gone, and I daresay we won’t have to fiddle about with tea for his young ones for a while. They won’t need the succour, and it’s grand he won’t be laying hands on Mr Auberon for a while.’ Evie stopped in her mixing.MoreLess
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