As she held out her hand, Mrs. Meadows said,
“It might be her Ladyship herself! You’re so like her, miss, that I’d know who you were wherever I saw you.”
“Mama often spoke about you,” Josina told her.
As she spoke, she felt the tears come into her eyes.
Everything was so different from what she had feared it would be.
She was in her mother’s home, two of the servants remembered her and the Duke had been kind to her.
However, at the moment the only thing that mattered was that she must concentrate on not keeping him waiting.
As they went into a large and very attractive bedroom, she saw that two housemaids were already unpacking her trunks.
*
Josina had changed into the one black evening gown that her mother had owned and was downstairs in under fifteen minutes.
The two housemaids
