Chapter SevenLarentia came down the stairs wearing the black gown she had worn when her mother died.
It was a little tight for her and in consequence made her look slimmer and more elegant than usual.
Her small bonnet was trimmed with black ribbons and she had a pair of black gloves.
All the time she was dressing she had tried to think of Katie and how tragic it was that she should die when she was so young.
But irresistibly her mind was back at the Castle and all she could see when she looked in the mirror was not herself but the huge stone walls with their arrow-slit windows and castellated towers.
For the two days she had been alone at home, not speaking to anyone except when she visited her father in the nursing home, the Duke had haunted her.
She knew that having once found the
