CHAPTER FOURBruce was invited by the King to go to Hampton Court Palace to meet the Queen.
Of course he was delighted to accept.
It meant that the Countess had to be invited as well to the exclusion of a disappointed and resentful Lady-in-Waiting.
Alissia, naturally, was left behind.
As Nancy was busy with her new friends, she was alone in their Apartment, which she much preferred.
She had her delightful spaniel, Jimbo, with her who she adored and he adored her.
She talked to him and found him, she thought, more intelligent than most of the people she had to talk to.
One day she saw the keeper who looked after the King’s dogs from her bedroom window.
He was taking the dogs out from their kennels and she ran down to join him.
For a long time she had wanted to look at the dogs close
