She and Aiden went on to have lots more children. Abigail always wanted to fill that house in Sixpenny Lane with children, and over the years, that’s exactly what she did. There wasn’t one room in that house that wasn’t bursting at the seams with kids, toys and laughter.Of course, the children soon rubbed off the house’s ‘designer shine’ and it began to look much more like a home, and less like a photo from Country Estates magazine. It began to look rather like the Drapers’ farmhouse, cosy and rather worn round the edges. And Abigail and Aiden were very comfortable with that.Aiden worked from home most of the time, and wore jeans with holes in them, only changing into his tailored suit when he had to go up to London on business. Money was not important to either him or Abigail. They lived for their children.The children went to the village school across the green, which is where you will go when you’re bigger. You’ll like it there, and your teacher will take you on nature study trips across the green, and you’ll catch little creatures with your net in the pond.Perhaps if Martha had been a nicer person, none of this would have happened.
