CHAPTER FIVEThe Nepalese maid suggested to Chandra that she should rest while she unpacked in another room.
Thankful to be able to do so because she was still aching from the long ride, Chandra climbed slowly into bed and almost immediately fell asleep.
She awoke with a start because someone spoke to her and she found that her maid trying to tell her that her bath was ready and it was time for her to dress for dinner.
She felt, as she awoke, that she had come back from a long, long distance and she wanted more than anything else to turn over and go on sleeping.
But she knew that however fatigued she might be, she must appear at dinner and play the part of Lord Frome’s wife.
She realised that near her bedroom was a bathroom, which was a modern innovation she had not expected to find in
