“I – I must apologise for – arriving so – late – but the train was d – delayed – and I did not – know where else I could – go.”
Larentia knew she could not explain to this overwhelming man that she had found to her consternation that she did not have enough money to stay at an inn, even if there had been one available.
The station to which Harry Carrington had sent her, which he had told her was only six or seven miles from the Castle, was situated in what appeared to be only a small village and it had, in fact, been difficult to hire a carriage to bring her to the Castle.
When Larentia had started her journey and had travelled for some way in the second-class compartment where Harry Carrington had put her she found that her ticket would only take her to her destination and he had not b
