CHAPTER TWOWaiting at the house for Jeremy to bring back the stranger, Mariota thought that the minutes seemed to drag by and she was frightened that something had upset his plans.
As she thought it over, she realised that he had been quite right in saying they must bring the fallen man back to the house as an act of kindness.
The two men working in the fields must have seen them. They would have thought it very strange if she and Jeremy had ridden home without being aware that an accident had occurred.
‘Jeremy is clever and has thought it out very carefully,’ Mariota told herself.
At the same time she was still horrified that he should have done anything so wrong and so dangerous.
Supposing she had not seen the stranger coming through the trees or had not intervened, then it might be
