It was not an easy task for it required more patience, dexterity and concentration than he possessed. He’d persisted just the same and tried to follow his young son’s advice not to mind about that. His first efforts had been laughably bad, but he refused to let that deter him. It was not the product that mattered, after all, only the activity to occupy his attention and pass the time. On both those counts it had succeeded. Unlike reading the newspapers, which frustrated and agitated him, paper folding had a calming effect on his mind. And while it absorbed his attention, the time passed. Not as swiftly as when he was in Hannah Fletcher’s company perhaps, but quickly enough. It also kept his thoughts from dwelling on his son’s governess quite so much. A brisk knock sounded on his door, making his heart beat faster as he called out permission to enter. But when the door swung open, it admitted only the butler and Gavin’s physician.
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