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Daisy didn’t reply, just carried on showing hihout the UK ranging from a perfectly preserved Norothic folly, herout all the various ways they attracted paying visitors

Seb’s heart picked up speed as he looked at each slide, harandfather clock in the hallway

Everything she was showing him he had considered Every conclusion she had drawn he had already drawn—and rejected Too risky, not in keeping A betrayal of his grandfather’s already squandered legacy

Risks and spending ht of the consequences had almost broken Hawksley once

Allowing the cameras into their horeed

He couldn’t go down that road Didn’t she understand that?

He had thought she understood

He had obviously been very wrong

Seb took in a deep breath, stilling his escalating pulse, and sat back and folded his arms ‘So people like stately homes’

‘Hawksley has two things none of these have’ She waited expectantly

He sighed ‘Which are?’

‘Its utterly unique appearance—and you An e to Paul’

His eyes narrowed ‘You have been busy’

She lifted her chin ‘The fare pays for itself—but the castle is in deficit You can apply for asto fix the roof and certainly won’t replace the money your father squandered The income fro expenses for the earl and his faht now you’d find it hard to replace the toaster’

It was an exaggeration but his gut tightened at her words Did she think he didn’t know this? Didn’t lie awake night after night thinking of every which way he could solve it?

‘But, Seb, there are so enerate the inco the keep, as well as the hall, for weddings and parties too—erect a wooden and canvas inner structure inside the walls just like they did at Bexley Hold plays, open all week Easter to September and weekends out of season Have a Christmas open house’ She hesitated ‘Allow tours of the main house’