The Marbeck Inn: A Novel

Sam's future had Travers not known that Lanca shire women are apt to be undemonstrative. She found a portly gentleman on the doorstep and thought he wore a patronizing air. They resent patronage in Lancashire. As a matter of fact, Travers had come to see what he could do for the lad who had saved his boy's life. That may be patronage, but he was thinking of it as the barest decency.