CHAPTER NINEMrs. Clerefall lost no time in making good on her threat. By ten o’clock the next morning Andrea was on her way in the dogcart to town to catch the coach to London.
She left a short letter for Hattie that Mrs. Clerefall grudgingly promised to hand over.
Within the envelope was a second letter for Lord Mannerly.
Although she did not elaborate on her reasons for going away, she did explain that it was unhappily for the best. She wrote that circumstances had arisen that made it impossible for them to be together. She hoped with all her heart that he would forgive her at some time.
It was hard to dwell on the fact that the Viscount had left her intending to inform Lady Bethel about his love for another.
It was almost dusk when at last she was set down in London before a tal
