She found history boring and Geography even worse. She learnt, however, not to make any protests but to look as if she was listening wide-eyed to all that they were saying to her.
Nine times out of ten she got away with it.
It was the same expression on her face that she put on when Lord Brambury talked to her before they were married.
It was indeed the same expression she assumed when they set off amid a shower of rose petals and rice to the Station.
They were to travel in Lord Brambury’s private coach to Huntingdonshire and he had planned to spend the first week of their honeymoon at his ancestral home near to the town of March.
Then they would go to his Hunting Lodge in Leicestershire, which he had not used for a long time and he had, in fact, given up hunting ten years ago.
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