Chapter Four
As Kelda went slowly up the stairs holding on to the banisters, she realised that she was trembling and her heart was thumping in her breast.
She felt as if she, as well as Yvette, had passed through a traumatic experience that had left her both shaken and shocked.
It just seemed to be inconceivable that Lord Orsett could have thought out anything quite so horrible, indeed as she had said ‘diabolical’, for someone as charming and sweet as Yvette.
The fact that he had obviously not given any thought to his niece as a person but merely as a puppet to implement his plans made it so much worse.
Everything Yvette had said about him seemed to Kelda to be an understatement of what he was really like.
By the time she had reached the top of the stairs and turned along the corrido
