CHAPTER TWOThe Earl felt as if he was moving slowly down a long dark corridor.
Then he heard voices and thought that he must be waking from a deep sleep.
“You must rest, Nanny,” a voice was saying. “You have been with him all night and I will take your place while you have a few hours’ sleep.”
“I don’t like leavin’ you, Miss Purilla, and that’s a fact,” a sharper more mature voice replied.
“I am sure I am quite safe.”
“That’s as maybe but it’s not correct for you to be sittin’ at a gentleman’s bedside, as you well know.”
“As he is unconscious and has no idea whether I am a woman or an elephant, I cannot believe that it matters.”
“I knows, Miss Purilla, what’s right and what’s wrong.”
“What is right, Nanny, is for you to go and lie down. Otherwise you will collapse and then what wil
