Chapter FiveAfter Rose had left the cabin, Bettina remembered that there was a lace collar that needed mending on one of her gowns.
As Rose was so preoccupied with her own affairs and had other ladies to look after, Bettina decided that she would do it herself.
She looked for the little sewing box that had been her mother’s and which contained most of the cottons and silks she required for mending and repairs.
She slipped the silver thimble onto her finger and chose a silk to match the lace that was old and very fragile.
She threaded her needle and darned it with small skilful stitches, thinking as she did so of the hours she had spent at school learning to embroider under the tuition of a French nun.
Madame de Vesarie had always been very insistent that her pupils should aspire to ev
