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tendril of her wavy brown hair had escaped from her maid’s cap.
Jem
returned to clipping the grass verges
gabled...
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Katy had bee...
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She wondered how a little smidgeon of ash could enjoy such freedom while she was ...
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couldn’t even join the suff...
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younger brother, Albert,
blue haze beyond the hills and the familiar longing
Cheadle Manor.
Charles Smythe
the heir to the estate.
parents, Sir Robert and Lady Amelia,
Charles drank his down in one and reached for the decanter
normally I’m lady’s maid to your sister,
Miss Cassandra,
the housekeeper was
Mrs Andrews - tall, Scottish and forbidding
Like reading, do you?”
love it more than anything else in the world, sir.”
the puny child she remembered being such a cry-baby.
signed up to serve as an officer in the British Expeditionary
Katy’s father, Bert, was an unwitting conspirator in the adventure. As head coachman
She’d never been allowed off the estate during working hours before, let alone been authorised to buy things for the big house. She knew she could do it though.
Mrs Threadwell ran the Post Office in Lower Cheadle
Jem's mother won't like it. Oh yes, Mary Phipps
I’m not after marrying Jem. You and his mother might want me to but it’s up to me
How can a maidservant be a friend to Sir Robert’s son?
Jem remained her kindred spirit and her best friend.
His golden mane was long, touching his collar in an old-fashioned style that belonged to the last century.
Reverend White
“As your pastor, Miss Beagle, I feel it is my duty to advise against such behaviour.
had better remember your station,
Jem
What more could he do, or say, to get Katy to come round?
Wiltshire soil
He couldn’t give Katy the adventure she longed for but she had his whole heart just the same.
Lady Amelia's lady's maid say
Ruth Harrison had even gone as far as to call Cassandra a tomboy.
Cassandra grimaced at her brother in sympathy and left, her reluctance obvious in every dragging step.
“You will leave this house forthwith, Miss Beagle, and receive no further wages. Neither will you have a reference from me.”
If Lady Amelia’s anger had frozen Katy in its austere severity, Agnes’ tirade more than made up for it. “Katy Beagle! I am ashamed of you. How could you lose
Old-fashioned his long hair might be but
Jem curled his lip at the way the curate was so careful not to disturb his neatly combed mane.
That the primary reason for such a full church might be because the residents of both villages had come to see for themselves if flighty Katy Beagle would actually marry steady Jem Phipps had reluctantly occurred to him.
to believe in the duty of the educated man to instruct the unfortunate.
reports of the ill health of his mother had eventually drawn him home.
Lionel’s eyes rested rather more on the bride than the groom
It was a shame she was marrying this yokel.
Mrs Chubbs said, as good humoured as ever.
