Although she did not say so to Christine, Mina was frightened that Lord Lydford’s secretary might appear at the last moment or even one of the Lydford relations.
However, when everything had passed off without there being any questions asked, she thought that perhaps Lady Lydford did not wish her husband’s relatives to know the plans that she had for her stepdaughter.
Anyway the caretakers were too old and too uninterested to show any curiosity and the Marquis’s smartly dressed footman managed her trunk and hat box without any trouble.
When the agitation she felt at getting away was over, she appreciated that the travelling carriage was very comfortable. The four horses pulling it were fine thoroughbreds, their silver harness bore the Marquis’s crest and the livery of his servants was m
