“Oh, no, of course not!” Alita said, laughing. “Who could compete with Nellie Farren?”
“I agree, she is amazing!” Clint Wilbur said. “And she and Miss Wadman will ensure that Little Jack Sheppard is a roaring success.”
Again Alita felt a pain that she told herself was envy.
Then, before she could say anything more, Burt Ackberg’s round was finished and it had been planned that she should go next.
Rajah realised what was expected of him and he moved quicker, Alita thought, than he had ever done before in his whole life.
She and Rajah seemed to fly over the fences and the applause for their performance started even before they took the last fence.
Then, as she rode breathlessly through the doors, Alita heard Burt Ackberg saying something to her, but she knew that she had no time to sto
