CHAPTER FIVELarisa walked into the schoolroom having changed for dinner.
She found Nurse there and the two women looked at each other in an understanding manner.
“They have been talking together all afternoon,” Nurse said in a low voice and there was no mistaking of whom she spoke.
There was a question in Larisa’s eyes and Nurse continued,
“I think the situation has improved a little. Bernard told me just now that Monsieur Raoul asked his father for a case of the Valmont wine and Monsieur le Comte said he could have one of the 1874 vintage which is kept for very special occasions.”
Larisa knew that Bernard was Monsieur le Comte’s manservant who was closely in his confidence.
Everything that went on in the Château was relayed to its owner by Bernard, and if he thought things were goin
