Yes. Father would never part with it. He thinks everything of the mill. We get our name from it, you know. De Mullin. Du Moulin. “Of the Mill.”
BROWN
Were the original De Mullins millers then?
HESTER
(rather shocked at such a suggestion)
Oh no!
BROWN
I thought they couldn’t have been. .
HESTER
No De Mullin has ever been in trade of any kind! But in the old days to own a mill was a feudal privilege. Only lords of manors and the great abbeys had them. The farmers had to bring all their corn to them to be ground.