Chapter fiveBy the time they reached Folkestone, Janeta was very tired.
Because it was a cross-country journey, it had been impossible to do it by train and they therefore travelled by road, changing horses at Posting houses.
As the Duke regularly made the journey there from Wynchester Castle, they were his own horses, so naturally the journey had been done in almost record time.
Nevertheless, when the saw the Duke’s yacht moored at the quayside, Janeta was glad the journey was over.
It had been impossible at the speed they were travelling to talk very much and she had in fact slept a little. She suspected that the Duke dozed too, even though when she woke she always found his eyes open.
They went immediately aboard the yacht, a new acquisition he was very proud of. Every modern gadge
