She thought he spoke dryly. Equally she had the feeling that he was rather surprised that she should have admitted his help and thanked him for it.
They sat in silence for a moment and then Lord Frome asked,
“You feel well enough to go on?”
Chandra was so surprised at his consideration that she looked at him wide-eyed.
As if he knew what she was saying without words, he added,
“I realise now I drove you too hard yesterday. It was inevitably a tough day, but I made it worse.”
“I should not have been so – foolish if I was not so badly out of – practice,” Chandra said quickly. “We have not been able to afford horses for a long time.”
She saw that she had astonished him.
“Not afford horses?” he repeated. “Then how do you go anywhere?”
Chandra smiled.
“We stay at home,” she replied. “
