CHAPTER TWOWhen Hermia arrived back at the Vicarage, it was to find the house empty.
She knew that Nanny had gone shopping and her father and mother were both visiting people who had asked for their help.
It was actually quite surprising that she had not been left a mass of instructions concerning other things to do.
With a feeling of delight she thought that this was an opportunity to continue reading a book that she was finding absorbingly interesting. Usually the only time she had to read was when she went to bed at night, but as she was often too tired to do anything but sleep she had so far only read one chapter.
Now she brought her book down from her bedroom and, curling herself up in the window seat in the sitting room, she found her place and started to read.
She was concentra
