They had not hurried back into The Castle.
The chaise was waiting for them outside the front door and the Marquis was giving instructions to his valet to follow him with his clothes.
Gordon turned to Rosetta,
“I can only hope that Mrs. Barnes will excel herself tonight as she did last night.”
“I am sure she will do her best,” Rosetta said softly. “But I suggest you and Henry ride back the quick way over the fields. It will give her advance warning and, if there is anything extra she needs, she has time to order it.”
“Of course and we might have thought of it on the way here, but we had to keep a little way behind, otherwise we would have had your dust in our eyes.”
“If you go home across the fields, you will be back long before we are along all those twisting lanes.”
When the Marq
