It has stood for 200 years. It will stay standing until Michael is master of Groby. He can decide to cut it down or not. You miss the point exactly! I want the tree gone before Michael has any say in the matter. He'll grow up a Tietjens -- backward-looking and sentimental! It's paganism, hanging up their bits and bobs like savages. The land steward will certainly inform Mark if you order the cedar cut down. Let him. Brother Mark has abdicated from Groby. He has chosen the life of a London clubman with an actress in the Gray's Inn Road. And Christopher, for all I know, will live in sin after the war with his little games mistress. That's all it is. You want to make Christopher suffer. Poor boy! Between you and the Germans! Anyone would think you were his mother, not mine! I pray even more fervently for you, as we are taught to do for all sinners. That's what I get for keeping myself chaste all these years! You mean since you bolted.