How it opens
You were the son of a beautiful mother, which is a profession before it is a childhood.
Your father died when you were five, leaving an estate, a name, and very few instructions.
Lady MarayneBenham, my darling, you have the family forehead. Do try to have the family luck as well.
Choose
Take the pony out alone and gallop it along the ridge.
Sit in the library with the books of the men your mother lunches with.
Follow the cook's boy down to the village and see how the other England lives.