Chapter SevenOutside the front door Warren found waiting for him the cabriolet which he used to drive round the estate and carry him to his mother’s house.
Without speaking to anybody he got into the driving seat, the groom holding the horses’ heads jumped in beside him and he drove off at a tremendous pace.
He knew where the slate mine was, although he had not visited it for years and thought it strange that Magnolia should know about it.
He imagined she might have seen it during the hunting season when the woods and the thick stubble around the old mine, which had not been worked for years, nearly always produced a fox.
But all that really concerned him was Nadia, for he knew that what had happened would shock, frighten and distress her, so that she would quickly be in the same state
