Chapter twoNorina went down to breakfast when she heard her father passing her door and she knew that her stepmother would not be called until at least ten o’clock.
As she entered the breakfast room, her father looked round.
“Good morning my dearest,” he said. “I missed you last night.”
“And I missed you, Papa,” Norina replied.
“Your stepmother said you had a headache,” he went on.
Norina did not reply.
She had no wish at the moment to make any trouble. She thought it was the sort of thing that Violet would say.
If she had told her father that she had been sent upstairs out of the way, he would have insisted that she come to the party.
Lord Sedgewyn was helping himself from the silver entrée dishes on the sideboard and Norina watched him carefully, determined to eat nothing he had
