In the NavyChapter 18 Fitting Out
The week in High Matcham ended too fast. Both Tony and Harriet felt that the house and the surrounding land had grown on them, but they had to go back to Portsmouth. They started out early on that Thursday morning, and Nadine Blacket accompanied them in the coach. Of course, with their faithful housekeeper on board, there was no danger of starving. They stopped in the village to drop John Little off at the tavern. He would collect the volunteers and follow in a second, smaller coach that Tony...