At least until she could find useful employment of some sort.
It was not going to be easy if she was to take Heron with her as well as her dog.
She could imagine what the housemaids at Avondale Hall would say if a servant arrived there with a well-bred horse and an outstanding Setter.
‘I am sure that something will turn up,’ Manella told herself consolingly.
At the same time she was feeling frightened and apprehensive.
There would doubtless be a tremendous fuss when she did run away.
Then if she was finally caught and returned home ignominiously, she knew just how her uncle would jeer at her.
He would keep her, having failed to become independent, triumphantly under his thumb.
She would have to do everything he ordered her to do.
Once again she thought of the Duke of Dunster and s
