As they neared the Vicarage from a different direction from which she had come back this morning, Aspasia saw that there was a carriage standing outside the front door.
“I wonder who it can be!” she exclaimed pulling in her horse.
Jerry did the same and then the same question flashed through their minds like forked lightning.
Why should the Duchess have sent a carriage to the Vicarage?
It was closed and drawn by two horses. There was a coachman on the box, another man standing on the ground who looked like a footman and Aspasia thought that he was about to ring the bell.
Then she saw that the front door was open and it seemed to her strange that the Duchess’s servants should have walked in.
But before she could say anything to Jerry a man appeared in the doorway and they both stiffen
