Because she felt so unsettled at such a possibility, she decided to go at once to Carol’s room and so jumped out of bed.
She put on the very pretty dressing gown Carol had bought her – it was the colour of her eyes and trimmed with real Valenciennes lace – and there was a pair of dainty blue slippers to go with it.
Neisa stood thinking about what she should do.
If she went out through the door into the passage, she might be seen by someone who would think it odd – or worse still, she could run into Randolph coming from his room to hers.
‘I could not bear that,’ she decided.
She crossed the room to the window.
It was long and low like all the windows built by the Adam brothers and when the balconies were added, the windows had not been altered.
It was very possible to step onto the b
