“I have already told your mother that she looks as if she belongs in a Fairy story,” the Comte said.
Susi knew that he was thinking of the kiss that had awakened the Sleeping Beauty and she blushed.
“Why are we not staying in the Château?” Trina asked.
“For two reasons,” the Comte answered. “First, because my grandmother who lives in the Dower House will chaperone you both and secondly for a reason I have not yet told your mother.”
“What is it?” Susi asked a little apprehensively.
“I have let the Château!”
“Let the – Château?”
Susi repeated the words in a tone of sheer astonishment.
“Only for the summer months, but the sum I was offered was too good to refuse.”
The Comte paused before he added,
“It will mean that I can live there all through the winter without worrying about the
