“All this rush, rush, rush!” Hannah grumbled away crossly. “It’ll do no one no good! Where’s all the hurry, I keeps asking myself?”
Neisa had no wish to leave.
She longed to stay with the Marquis for as long as she could.
She recognised deep in her heart that once they had departed from Denholme Park after luncheon, she would never see him again.
Carol had said that she would be leaving immediately for America. Therefore when the Marquis called at the big house in Park Lane, he would be told she had gone.
She did not believe that he would give her another thought.
She walked slowly and forlornly downstairs just as the Marquis was coming in through the front door.
He called out to Neisa,
“You must have forgotten that I had promised you a ride on Champion. It is nearly time for
