Chapter FourWhen luncheon was over the Earl rose to his feet and said:
“I am going riding.”
He had eaten very little and Pandora was sure that his mind was on other things.
He certainly paid very little attention to what Hettie was saying, and he answered his friends absent-mindedly.
She had been relieved to find that there was no sign of Sir Gilbert.
Although she did not ask about him, Richard told her what she wanted to know when he mentioned that last night Sir Gilbert had made an arrangement to see Sir Edward Trentham today.
Clive and Richard now looked at the Earl enquiringly as if they expected him to invite them to ride with him, but before they could speak the Earl said,
“If you are not too tired, Pandora, I would like you to come with me. There are things I want to see whic
