“She said it was locked up.”
“I know. She also said that she and her old nurse were alone in the house. If that is true, where was the man to whom the wooden leg belonged?”
“He was obviously a gardener,” Anthony suggested.
“Maybe, but one gardener could not have kept that garden as tidy as we saw it to be. What is more, I don’t believe her old nurse, who must be over sixty, could have polished those stairs, the furniture, the floors and the brass. I could see my face in them.”
“You are concocting a good story,” Anthony laughed. “But at the same time, if you ask me, you are making mountains out of molehills. Ivana is a simple, charming, open country girl with blue eyes and if you think she has highwaymen locked up in her barn – ”
“It is as likely as if she had parakeets in a lime tree!
