Chapter SevenBelinda awoke and looked at the clock beside her bed.
She felt it could not be true.
It was nearly eleven o’clock and no one had woken her.
She rang the bell and, when the maid appeared, she asked her incredulously,
“Is the clock wrong or is it really nearly eleven o’clock?”
“It’s all right, miss,” the maid said. “His Lordship told me you weren’t to be called, but allowed to sleep on till you woke.”
Belinda felt herself relax.
“And her Ladyship?”
“Her Ladyship woke early and said goodbye to ’is Lordship and went to sleep again. Her won’t want to see you, miss, till lunchtime.”
The maid went from the room.
Belinda wondered whether she should ask if anything strange had happened during the night.
Then she told herself that Marcus Logan and his valet would have dealt w
