She had no family to watch over her and his lordship and an old lady who was fond of her had taken her trouble in hand.

The well-trained woman who had nursed her as a child would bring her to Darreuch Castle and there would stay.
His lordship had been plainly much interested in the long time past when he had put the place in order for his own convenience.

Now he seemed even more interested and more serious.

He went from room to room with a grave face and looked things over carefully.

He had provided himself with comforts and even luxuries before his first coming and they had been of the solid baronial kind which does not deteriorate.