She came down the stairs wearing her pretty bonnet trimmed with cornflowers.
Bessie was coming from the kitchen.
“Where you be off to, Miss Olivia?” she asked.
“We are going to try and stop the trouble on the green,” Olivia replied. “Will you please look after his Lordship? Ted has gone to Chad Hall to ask for his valet to come and help us.”
“That be sensible!” Bessie said approvingly.
“Wendy will stay here with you,” Olivia ordered.
But, when she went outside, she saw that Wendy was sitting at the front of Tony’s saddle.
There was a side saddle on the horse that Graves had been riding.
And as he helped her to mount, she said to Gerald,
“Perhaps it’s a mistake for Wendy to come with us in case she is hurt.”
“Unless this village has gone completely crazy,” Gerald replied, “there i
