CHAPTER THREEArliva’s alarm that her father had given her a long time ago, which he had bought in France, went off at six o’clock.
She knew that she had plenty of time before she left because she had everything ready last night.
At the same time she took a great deal of trouble in dressing herself in her plainest and most ordinary-looking clothes.
She put on the hat she had worn yesterday from which she had removed the feathers.
Then she gazed at herself in the mirror and felt that her face looked very young.
She carefully drew a line under both her eyes with a pencil and was certain that it made her look at least five years older than she actually was.
She was about to put on her glasses, but thought it might be rather intimidating for the children to see their Governess with huge d
