The idea gnawed at him. He had to know for sure.
Another day here would not change anything at home. But… if it was Marion, it could change his life, and her’s. He could fulfil his promise to Scartwick, and be free of it.
The Innkeeper was glad of the money that providing another night’s lodging brought him, and the following morning Charles hurried back to Springmarsh, and enquired after the labourers. The farm manager apologised, explaining that the men were not there – he had sent them with the farm cart to the next town, to deliver promised supplies to a merchant of the town.
Inwardly cursing, Charles thanked the man, and set off, towards Meltonbrook Chase after all – he could not, reasonably, stay another two or three days to await their return. But he would be back. Any possibility of finding Marion, however slim, he would follow to its end.
~~~~~
Jane Canfield had never felt older. Grief and exhaustion had left her feeling empty, almost hopeless. The only thing that motivated her to continue was her daughter, and her grandson. The grandson who, oblivious to everything else, played happily with a pile of wooden blocks, which he had scattered across the worn rug at her feet.
It did not matter that she did not know who they boy’s father was, that Marion still refused to tell her, had always answered ‘It doesn’t matter now’, when she had asked. She loved the child anyway, as she loved her daughter - the daughter who had arrived on her doorstep, expecting and alone, nearly four years ago.
Continuing to watch Daniel, Jane spoke softly.
“How will we go on now, Marion? Now that your grandmother is gone. I know that she is better off with God, for this last year has been hard, where she didn’t even remember us, really, and kept calling Daniel by the name of the boy she cared for when I was a child.” Jane sighed, still watching the child, before she continued. “The only reason we have survived the last two years is the charity that the Countess was kind enough to send my mother, as thanks for all of her years of service to the family. And mother’s cottage is theirs – now she’s gone, it will be given to some other dependent of the Earl of Morcross. All we have is this little cottage of our own, a few things that my mother owned, and us. I don’t know, now, how we’ll feed ourselves, let alone a growing boy.”
Marion turned and hugged her mother to her, the glitter of unshed tears in her eyes.
“We’ll find a way, Mother, somehow, we will.”
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