Across on the other side of the landing, Lady Isobel sat on the edge of her bed. She took the letter Ruby had collected for her out of her bedside drawer and read it again, then she extracted a handwritten note from the back of the drawer, carefully concealed. The letter was from a private detective agency in Scotland Road, Liverpool, and it confirmed all of her worst fears. She had driven him away with her anger and her grief and she knew in her heart that was exactly what she had wanted to do. It had been her intention all along. She read the name and address. Stella Manning, hairdresser, County Road, Liverpool. She felt a slight pang of guilt. She had pushed him to live another life so far away from the one he had loved at Ballyford.