chapter twoThe Marchioness of Langbourne slipped into the Grosvenor Chapel and found that the Service was just finishing.
The congregation was moving towards the West door and she joined them and then saw her lady’s maid waiting in the porch.
Without speaking she started walking as quickly as she could to Langbourne House in Park Street.
As she went in through the front door, the hands on the grandfather clock pointed to nine o’clock.
She had given orders before she went out that, since his Lordship was tired after his journey home from Paris, he was not to be called until nine o’clock with his breakfast.
She ran up the stairs and went to her stepdaughter’s bedroom at the end of the corridor.
She entered the room without knocking and Sadira was standing at the window dressed in her r
