Chapter ThreeTravelling towards Tilbury, Latonia felt a little surge of excitement at the idea of going abroad.
It had been impossible not to feel extremely apprehensive when at dinner yesterday evening she and Lord Branscombe had sat almost in silence.
She had known, because of the scowl on his face and the way he was looking at her, that he felt both dislike and contempt for her.
It was something she had never encountered before in her happy life and, although she tried to tell herself that it was nothing personal, it did not prevent her from feeling afraid and, though she tried to deny it, upset.
There was something about him that was very overpowering and she thought that Toni must have been right when she said that his Subalterns were afraid of him.
She had tried to make a few co
