CHAPTER THREEWhen Joanna was back home at The Four Gables she felt that her meeting of today with the Earl and their conversation together had been the strangest that she had ever had. ‘How could I have said all that to him,’ she asked herself in a moment of introspection. But somehow it seemed to have come from her lips without her considering it. As she thought over what had happened today, she realised that on the whole she had not been as aggressive as she had felt when she first drove away. The real thing that mattered and for which she was extremely grateful, was the fact she could hold her dancing classes at The Castle. There was not the slightest doubt that the pupils would find it an unusual and maybe a romantic place to have their lessons. She had noticed, even when she was