Chapter SixBecause she had cried for a long time after going to bed, Latonia felt that she had only just fallen asleep when she heard somebody knocking on the door.
“What is it?” she asked.
“Lord Sahib leave in one hour, Memsahib,” the servant replied.
“I will be ready,” Latonia managed to answer.
She got up and dressed hurriedly, but by the time she reached the verandah, where she knew that breakfast would be served, it was to find that Lord Branscombe had already left.
She thought that he would be having breakfast with some of his brother Officers, and she was glad that she did not have to face him after the storm of yesterday evening.
She might have known, she thought, that sooner or later somebody from Toni’s past would confront her.
However, she had not expected that it would b
