CHAPTER SEVEN“Mama, what will happen after your wedding? Will you go to live with Lord Darley?”
Chiara hoped that the anxiety she felt did not show in her voice, as she took tea with her mother in the drawing room on the afternoon after the ball.
She simply could not imagine what it would be like to have Lord Darley sitting at table in her Papa’s place every day for the rest of her life.
But then what would she do, if Mama left Rensham Hall? Surely she could not stay behind all on her own?
Lady Fairfax was shaking her head.
“Oh no, darling. Poor Tom – he does not get on at all with his elder brother, Henry, who owns the estate. We could not possibly go there. We shall stay here, of course!”
Chiara felt glad for a moment and then her body turned hot and cold as she remembered Mervyn H
