Wickham Hall: Part Four - White Christmas - Plot & Excerpts
I hope that you will forgive me writing to you directly. When Mr Fortescue contacted me to see if I was the Signor Biancardi who had been at the festival at Wickham Hall in the 1980s I almost jumped straight on a plane to come and find you. Luckily my wife Etta is more sensible and advised me to proceed slowly. The news that I have a daughter has brought such joy into my life and I hope that one day we will meet. I am married, as I have said, and I have three sons, two of whom work in my leather business. The other is a chef. But Etta and I have no daughters and she is just as excited as I am to learn of your existence. I have never forgotten your mother, Lucy, and for a long time after that summer I thought about her often, wondering why she hadn’t come to say goodbye as we’d arranged. Wondering if I had done something wrong. But shortly after the end of the festival my father became seriously ill and sadly died. It was my duty as his only child to take over the running of the business and I must confess that with so many responsibilities thrust upon my young shoulders, I consigned that summer and your mother to the past and began a new life with Etta, building the leather business and raising a family.
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