Chapter 52

_I, Angela Fennel, of High Woods, do make and declare this to be a Codicil to my last Will, which Will bears date the seventeenth day of April 1902. I give and bequeath unto Lady Alathea Harwich of 66 Charles Street, W., whom I do not know, whom I have set eyes on but twice, whose behaviour on each of those most trying occasions commanded my unbounded admiration, the sum of five thousand pounds, which I hope she will accept, as a token of my respect and esteem._ There was a pregnant sile…