CHAPTER TWOHonora, arriving in London with three other girls from her school and a nun in attendance, felt herself growing more and more apprehensive.
Having been away for over two years in Florence with little contact with her uncle and aunt, she was intelligent enough to realise that they had no particular wish for her to return to England.
In fact she had written the previous year saying that now she was approaching eighteen the school did not wish her to stay.
The only reply was a letter from her uncle’s secretary to say they were communicating with the Mother Superior to the effect that she was to remain there for another two terms.
It had been embarrassing not only to be the oldest girl in the school but also the cleverest.
She had actually gone to the Mother Superior and sugges
