Chapter 5
AS ADALBERT VERDONCK had promised, a guard came to the barn later in the afternoon.
Before that time, Nellie had scoured the ship to find something suitable to wear. She only had the clothes she had left the palace with, and they were very dirty. Not suitable at all for a visit to a lord’s house. The cupboards below the deck held a few habits, and while Nellie hadn’t expected to find any women’s clothes there, she’d hoped for something to make herself a bit more respectable.
Not finding it, she tried to fix up her hair, but she had no comb, and she’d lost some of her hairpins.
Henrik still wore his smudged uniform. No amount of rubbing would remove a black stain from the lapel, and Nellie decided it was not that important. Running an agricultural estate, the young lord would
