“Where am I going?” she asked the Courier.
“I was told, Lady Safina,” he replied, “just to inform you that her Ladyship’ll meet you at the place I am taking you to and I am to answer no questions until we get there.”
He spoke in a somewhat embarrassed manner and Safina looked at him in astonishment.
She could not understand why her stepmother should be so mysterious.
“Where is my father?” she asked him.
The Courier hesitated and for one terrifying moment Safina wondered if her father was ill or dead.
Finally, as if he felt compelled to answer her, the Courier said,
“His Lordship’s on his way to Edinburgh.”
“To Edinburgh!” Safina exclaimed. “Why is Papa going there?”
It seemed to her very strange that her father should go away just as she was returning home.
In his last letter he
