‘Surely he cannot be such a fool as to trust her the very first evening he comes here?’ she then asked herself angrily.
Yet she was frightened that he might actually do so.
She went and had a quick supper with Hannah in the housekeeper’s room, but she could think of nothing but how she could warn the Marquis.
She had been told earlier that Dobson would not join them this evening as he had to see to the dinner.
Afterwards he and his wife would finish the best dishes in the kitchen when the Comtesse and the Marquis would go up to the drawing room on the first floor.
As Zela knew only too well that they only had to cross the passage to her bedroom.
She asked herself if that could really happen on what appeared to be such a short acquaintance and she did not like to think of the likely a
