He’s been making excited hand gestures for days and we can’t understand what he’s trying to tell us. He uses sign language, you know, but this is eluding us.
Some time later, Lidlia took pity on them and brought out afternoon tea from the castle kitchens. Chef had cooked a ham especially in honour of the new guests.
A door opened and half a dozen large ladies came into the hall. They were dressed in long brown dresses with aprons over the top covered in big pink flowers.
They were in an enormous hall. It was cool and Kerry shivered under her thin cardigan. The hall was the size of a football pitch; it was dark but not gloomy.