CHAPTER FOURSheila worked all through day in the office finding out where everything was kept and learning how to open the safe, which was rather antiquated and not as easy as the modern ones.
She gathered from Bates that there was actually a considerable amount of money in the safe.
Therefore she thought that she should count it out to see whether she needed to draw any more from the bank before the wages were paid on Saturday.
There had been no sign the previous evening, after she had arrived, of the relations of the Duke.
She thought when she did meet them the more she understood about their affairs that she was dealing with the more impressed they would be by her.
She had the uncomfortable feeling that they would be disappointed that she was not a man.
So she was therefore rather
