Desperate Remedies Chapter 7 - The Events of Eighteen Days

In which the newly appointed mistress of Knapwater House embarks upon the delicate business of securing a capable steward to oversee her estate, weighing the balance between practical skill and personal disposition with a quiet determination. Her quest leads her from the somber stillness of ancestral ruins to the bustling thoroughfares of London, where letters and interviews reveal as much of character as of competency.