“Now I feel better, Miss Compton,” she said. “Let’s go and explore The Castle.”
“I think first,” Jaela replied, “you should meet your father.”
“I am going to ask Papa for my pony,” Kathy insisted firmly.
Jaela did not say anything.
She merely took Kathy by the hand and they went down the stairs.
There was a footman on duty in the hall and she asked him,
“Where can I find his Lordship?”
“’E be in the breakfast room, miss,” the footman replied.
The butler then appeared, whose name Jaela learned from Elsie was ‘Whitlock’.
“Are you wantin’ to see his Lordship, Miss Compton?” Whitlock asked.
“I thought her Ladyship should meet her father,” Jaela said in a low voice.
He nodded.
She knew that he understood that this was an important moment.
He took them down the corridor and opened a
