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🙂 🐎 🧐 🐎 🧐 🐎 🙂
Bertie Lissie quietly made it his job to help von Stalhein feel at home - or at least as close to it as he was going to get in cold, rainy London.
Bertie couldn't do anything about the weather, but he could - and did - do something about providing what friendship he could.
Once he discovered their mutual love of horses, he made sure to extend a regular invite to Chedcombe for riding and companionship. He made sure that it was clear that, far from a debt to be somehow repaid, von Stalhein was doing him and his staff a great service by helping him to keep both himself and the horses in shape.
Bertie suspected von Stalhein didn't believe him for a moment, but that was just fine. He came, that was the important thing.
And more than once. He accepted the invitation and made of himself a good guest, and slowly, began to make himself a home in England, as much as he ever would.
🙂 🐎 🧐 🐎 🧐 🐎 🙂