It is thus a highly useful and versatile structure as well as being a rather fine building - a fact that I am sure would have delighted the good Anselm. Personally I have mixed feelings about the place having once been a reluctant guest there myself – a circumstance that was also, coincidentally,...
‘Charming, quite charming. Are they always so loving towards each other?’ Maynus gave a wry smile. ‘Is it not usually the way with families?’ ‘Not with mine.’ ‘Then you are fortunate indeed, mon fils.’ That wasn’t strictly true. Joseph and I used to fight like mongrels as children, although we al...
He insisted on keeping his robe on even though it was sopping wet and streaked with mud which no doubt he saw as badges of his martyrdom. I’m sure he would have preferred to keep the blood streaking his face, too, if Gilbert and I hadn’t already cleaned it off. The injury itself was superficial -...