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She leaned back against hilets up and then letting the
Chapter Twenty-Four
One finea feeeks after Linnet first met Gavan, he was carried downstairs by Neythen and plunked in the sun at the front door of the castle to wait for someone to fetch him
Linnet found hi?"
He shrugged "Probably Muot me here My dad, he’s in the field, or with the sheep"
"So you’re a farmer’s son," Linnet said "Do you want to be a far estate for so to be a doctor," Gavan said, with easy confidence "I’ to be better than those two" He jerked his head back at the castle
"They did a good job with you," she said, hiding her grin "What do your parents think of your plan?"
"They don’t know yet, do they? On account of how old Havelock told my mum she had to leave estured, rather vaguely, toward the east "My mum told me she’d visit, and then Havelock said she couldn’t come, ever"
"So Tydfil is quite close?" Linnet asked, but Gavan was suddenly struggling to stand Linnet jumped up and hauled him to his feet
"There’s the cart!" he bawled, beside himself with excitement "It is my mum!"
When the cart drew up in front of the castle, a woman jumped down, ran over and swooped Gavan up her arood as gold!"
He had his arhtly wreathed around her neck "I never cried," he said But he was crying now "Not even when they heldwas lost in sobs
Linnet patted the bench she and Gavan had been sitting on, and Gavan’sto her front She wasn’tunder her bonnet
She sat down, stroking Gavan’s hair "There’s nothing wrong with crying," she told hi at all" After that, they just sat there in the sunshine, his head buried in her shoulder as she rocked him back and forth
The door opened behind them, and Linnet heard the sound of Piers’s cane She turned around to give hilance This was no time for incivility But he ell- like a charm He should be on his feet for an hour a day at the radually fro nodded "Thank you, h" She squeezed Gavan a little tighter There was a gloss of tears in her eyes, but she was clearly an energetic soul with little time for weakness
Piers turned on his heel to leave
"Wait!" Mrs Wing called
He paused and half turned "Mada said She uncurled her son from around her neck and dropped him, quite naturally, into Linnet’s outstretched ar