CHAPTER THREEVanda stared at Mr. Rushman in some surprise before she exclaimed,
“The Earl is coming home? When?”
Mr. Rushman glanced down at a letter beside him.
“His Lordship says,” he replied, “that he will be leaving London on Wednesday, which is actually today. That means he should be here on Friday.”
Vanda made a little murmur before he went on,
“His Lordship asks that I send a pair of the best horses to The Dog and Duck at Gresbury.”
He looked at Vanda and added,
“You do know, Miss Vanda, as well as I do that we have nothing in the stable that his Lordship would consider worth driving.”
Vanda knew that this was true.
When the old Earl died, the horses were already getting on in years and gradually most of them were put out to grass in the paddocks. And what remained were onl
