Chapter fourDespite the Marquis’s resolution to escape from London, they were not able to leave until the next day.
The Courier, who was engaged to arrange the journey, explained that it would be impossible, at such short notice, to obtain cabins on the cross-channel steamer, nor, he pointed out, for the French to attach the Marquis’s private coach to the express train to Paris.
Grudgingly the Marquis conceded that he would wait another day and he gave strict instructions to Jean that nobody was to know that he was still in residence.
Norina, by this time, had learnt that the house belonged to Lord Winterburn, who was a friend of the Marquis’s.
He was abroad and had lent him the house while he wished to remain in London.
The manservant was also the caretaker and his wife the cook.
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