Chapter Two“May I come in?”
The nursery door opened and Sheena looked up from the small white sock she was darning to see Colonel Mansfield standing in the doorway.
“Of course,” she answered, but at the same time she felt a little apprehensive.
She did not know why, but Lucien Mansfield always made her feel afraid. There was something in the way he looked at her, in the almost penetrating quality of his grey eyes and perhaps too it was because his personality was so strong and so obtrusive that it was impossible to ignore him.
Even when other people were there, the beautiful Madame Pelayo, her brother and even the Ambassador himself, Sheena found it impossible not to be conscious all the time that Colonel Mansfield was in the room.
She had not seen much of him for the first two days a
