CHAPTER TWO“I thought that this would happen,” Wilkins said. “Now you come along with me, my Lady, and I’ll tell you what I’ve been plannin’.”
Sheila looked at him in surprise.
However, as he was moving to the doorway under the staircase that led to the kitchen, she followed him.
They walked along the corridor which she had run along when she was only a child to ask the cook for some delicious titbit that could only be found in the kitchen.
She was thinking with an irrepressible fear that she might never see her home again.
After she left tomorrow morning she did not know where she would lay her head tomorrow night.
They found that Mrs. Wilkins was working in the kitchen preparing luncheon.
As she walked in with Wilkins, she raised her head and looked at her questioningly.
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