There would only be the servants in The Castle to look after her.
Anne’s luggage was already piled onto the carriage that was to take her to the Halt.
And there she would board the train for London.
As Anne came down the steps of The Castle, she was carrying Katherine in her arms.
Whitlock stared at her in astonishment.
“You’re takin’ the baby with you, my Lady?”
“I am, Whitlock, and Rose is coming with me as far as London.”
Whitlock did not ask the Countess where she was going and he waited for Rose to return and tell him where her Ladyship had gone.
Rose informed him that the Countess had not stayed at Hale House as she had assumed she would.
A carriage had been waiting for them at the Station.
“The Conte was so surprised to see the baby,” Rose recounted.
Then the Countess had
