Chapter Two“We should arrive at Rannock Station in about twenty minutes,” Mr. McKeith announced.
Fiona gave a little start and felt, although it irritated her, that her heart was beating unaccountably quickly.
She knew it was nervousness and she despised herself for being nervous of anything, especially of the Duke.
The journey had been very enjoyable and Mary-Rose had found it irresistible to be able to run along the whole length of the train with its communicating carriages.
Fiona had read that in all the new trains this was possible, but it was only the previous year, she learnt, that the Queen had abandoned the old Royal railway coach for a new small one with all the compartments communicating.
At last there would be no more steep clambering down onto the line for the Ladies-in-Wa
