“Your house is full of secrets. Old ones. I can’t tell you very much except that it used to be a monastery, founded in the eleventh century, I think. Quite poor, it was, never received many donations. By the Reformation, Henry VIII and his wives, you know, they only supported four monks. Thirteenth-century stone the crypt is supposed to be, and the king’s men tore the rest down. The Sauvants were about five miles away then, they were given that land and built their ‘new’ manor on top of it.” She paused, eyes raised to the ceiling, thinking. “What else? Well, there’s a smugglers’ tunnel, but I
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