CHAPTER ONE
1880“I cannot believe it’s the end of term. Tomorrow we will both be leaving here forever!” seventeen-year-old Adella May said to her dearest friend Jane Hartley, as they both prepared to go into the Chapel for early Morning Prayers, a ritual at Mottram’s School for Young Ladies.
Jane sighed,
“All good things must come to an end.”
Adella leapt up from her dressing table, where she had been sitting to comb out her glorious mane of golden curly hair.
“Don’t be miserable, Jane. Please! Endings lead to beginnings, all sorts of good things might happen to us!”
The two girls, both orphans, had grown up together at the school and had always been inseparable.
As they stood in the bright June sunlight streaming in through the window of Adella’s bedroom, they could not have looked
