Because they had been travelling all day, Lady Helmsdale insisted that they went straight to their bedrooms.
“We must rest,” she told the Major Domo, “and change before we meet our host.
“There is sure to be a large party,” she told Yursa, “for, as you know, French houses, unlike those in England, make every member of the family welcome whenever they wish to come.”
“What happens if they all arrive together and there is no room for them all?” Yursa asked.
Her grandmother laughed.
“There are more rooms in The Château than I have ever been able to count and I am quite sure that nobody would ever be sent away, however crowded it might seem.”
Yursa had learned that the Duc enjoyed having people round him and was extremely hospitable.
It was a trait that he had inherited from his father a
