Chapter SixAfter luncheon Pandia, having changed into one of the prettiest gowns in Selene’s wardrobe, found that there was still some time before Lord Silvester would arrive.
She therefore decided to explore the house and found it all very grand and impressive, recognising here and there little bits of her mother’s taste that Selene had copied.
There were soft blends of colouring such as her mother had loved and had designed for the rooms in their small house in Little Barford.
Selene had done exactly the same but much more grandly and expensively.
Pandia thought that it was true that children unconsciously absorbed the environment in which they were brought up and, however much they might wish to escape, it always remained with them fundamentally.
It was the sort of thing she would
