He had recently lost his wife, whose income had helped to run the place, but it now went to their only child, a daughter married to a major in a Gurkha regiment and living in India. This left Colonel Rodgers with inadequate money to continue at Waterpark, and also with insufficient outlet for his emotions, which had some effect on ourselves. He was relieved when Steven wrote asking him to end the tenancy, and he asked if he might have instead the secondary residence called the Dower House, though no dowager had lived in it for a hundred years. Uncle Arthur had been going to live there when he returned from his tragic honeymoon with Damaris Tunstall, and since then there had been a feeling that there was a blight on the place. At the moment it was empty, and Steven was only too pleased to let Colonel Rodgers have it. It was in the Easter holidays that Steven and I saw Dominic standing by Tamburlaine’s grave. We were installed at Waterpark by the end of August, our lives having been revolutionized in a few months.
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