What she hoped to earn would not only buy all the immediate luxuries Lady Selwyn needed, but, if she stayed for a few weeks, Olinda knew that there would be no great urgency for her to work for some months to come.
‘How can I persuade this man to leave me alone?’ she wondered frantically.
She felt as if he was encroaching on her, encircling her. With an almost childish fear she thought that she could not escape from him.
He must have brought the note to her sitting room and, if the door had not been locked, he could have walked in and surprised her!
She thought in a panic that there was nowhere she could hide! Then she told herself that she must be sensible and keep her head.
Yet instinctively she looked over her shoulder, as if she expected more notes to be lying just inside the door
