CHAPTER FIVEThe young man who Lupita had been dancing with took her into the Conservatory when the music had stopped for an interval.
“I love flowers,” she commented, “and these are particularly lovely.”
“You are like a flower yourself,” he complimented her.
She gave him a shy little smile and bent forward to touch a rare orchid.
The Conservatory was exactly what she might have expected to find in a large house in Chelsea and the Dowager Countess had told her before she went there that her mistress, Lady Godwin, was a great connoisseur of beautiful things.
Lupita was therefore enjoying not only the treasures in the house but also the flowers.
She learnt that they had been brought to London from every part of the world.
The Dowager Countess had gone with the Earl and Lupita to the di
