Chapter FourWhen they arrived at The Castle, which appeared to Minella to be enormous and rather frightening, they were hurried upstairs by a butler, who handed them over to the housekeeper, Mrs. Harlow, in rustling black with the silver chatelaine at her waist.
She seemed to be very superior and looked at them with what Minella thought was an expression of disdain.
She led them along a corridor that Minella was certain from what her father had told her contained the State bedrooms and every so often she opened a door either to the right or the left saying,
“This is yours, miss.”
Minella noticed that neither Connie, Nellie or Gertie had been allocated adjacent rooms and she thought, although she was not sure, that she had a glimpse of valets in the bedrooms beside theirs.
Then, when o
