Chapter TwoAs the horses trotted on towards The Castle, Pepita became more and more apprehensive.
She had realised at their last stop that she had very little money left for except the generous sum that she had already put aside in an envelope to give to the coach driver for the whole journey.
What she had not expected was that she would have to pay for the new horses at each Posting inn.
Also by the time she had paid the bills for the night and the food they ate wherever there was an available inn, the fifty pounds that Mr. Clarence had given her had dwindled to a mere pittance.
She told herself that it was what she might have expected since she was very bad at handling money, having always left everything to do with it first to her father and then to her brother-in-law.
Now when her
