Chapter ThreeBelinda and her stepfather had a quiet and rather dismal luncheon.
Mrs. Bates was in a flutter because she had not expected Captain Rowland to come home.
Belinda felt that to eat anything at all would choke her.
She was wondering all the time if she could find something anywhere in the house that her stepfather could pawn.
She knew that Bates was hoping for an opportunity to ask him for the wages he was owed.
She was aware that her stepfather was thinking, as she was, if there was anything valuable that would not be claimed by the bank.
When they left the dining room, they walked into the drawing room before D’Arcy Rowland said sharply,
“We might as well make a tour of the house. I have had a copy made of the inventory that I gave to the bank. Anything that is not on it
