CHAPTER THREEWhen she left home she had taken with her a present for her friend.
It was a bottle of expensive French scent she had bought for herself.
She also told the maid at the last minute to collect a large arrangement of Malmaison carnations from a vase in the drawing room.
They were wrapped so that she could present them at the same time.
Her mother had always taught her that, when she was visiting or staying with anyone, she should always take them a small present.
“It is an Eastern habit,” Lady Margaret had said, “which I have always thought was attractive.”
‘Elizabeth will be pleased to see me,’ Kasia thought as she got into the carriage.
Her presents were lying on the opposite seat.
When she arrived at Elizabeth’s house she paid the driver and told him not to wait.
She
