He has no money and no title and no relatives. One weekend, John Beaver, a non-descript young man comes to stay. One of the other servants is a riding master, Ben Hacket, who’s teaching the boy how ride and jump fences on his pony, Thunderclap (and in a comic recurring theme, also exposing the boy to rather fruity phrases which nanny considers wholly inappropriate). They have a simply adorable little boy, John Andrew, who has a tut-tutting nanny. But what with the upkeep of the big draughty place and wages for the fifteen or so servants (including the butler, Ambrose), they don’t have much disposable income and can’t afford to go up to London very often. They lived in a flat in London till Tony’s father died two years later, and left him an impressive Victorian country house, Hetton, loving described in a page of purple prose. She is Lord St Cloud’s daughter, ‘very fair, underwater look’.
Five or six years ago Brenda Rex married Tony Last.
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