CHAPTER SIXIn her bedroom Zelda stood for a long while at the window looking out into the garden.
She wondered if she had made a terrible mistake and if she should have kept her thoughts to herself until she was ready to leave.
Now she was almost sure that the Duke would tell her to go in the morning and she would leave The Abbey ignominiously without actually telling him the reason why she was there.
In reaction to the thrill and excitement of seeing the wonderful house and talking so intently to the Duke, she now felt frantically that he would definitely send her away.
That would mean she would never see him again.
If he was so angry that he just sent her a message by the servants, it would be too late then to tell him who she was and why she had come.
‘How could I have been so sil
