“Lily hurried to pour their tea while Darley's valet relieved them of their filthy coats. Lady Grace attempted to send her daughters out of the room while the gentlemen were in their shirtsleeves, but even quiet Jessica would have none of it. Without waiting to serve in the formality of the dining room, they set plates and cutlery on the trestle table in the kitchen and began setting out the meal while demanding to know what happened. Darley looked disgusted. "If I did not know better, I'd say t...here was an army troop out there this morning. After all that rain, there shouldn't have been so many footprints." Reginald drained his teacup first, then began folding his bacon into his toast. He was all but certain there was more than one person hiding on these grounds. The boot prints looked to be of different sizes to him, and the one appeared to have an incipient hole in the sole. He bit savagely into his toast and ignored the speculations running rampant. O'Toole wouldn't be caught dead with a hole in his sole.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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