“My cousin asked me to send his wife a Nanny, but, as I could not find the right sort of person they required, I – came myself.
Major Hadleigh smiled.
“Without giving them the chance of rejecting you?”
“Yes.”
“Now I am beginning to understand. But surely you did not make the voyage from England without having somebody to chaperone you?”
“No, I was chaperoned most efficiently by Canon and Mrs. Grant as far as Bombay. They even found someone to look after me from there to Bhopal, but unfortunately she was taken ill at the last moment and instead of waiting for them to find someone else I just came alone.”
“I see you are a very enterprising young woman,” Major Hadleigh remarked “At the same time surely you are aware that it is unheard of for any woman, married or unmarried, to travel al
