Chapter fourWhen she awoke, Gytha lay thinking of what had happened the previous evening.
It had all been very exciting.
Dinner had been in a beautiful dining room decorated with Adam furniture and its alcoves were filled with statues of Greek Gods.
The conversation was as unexpected as the room.
Gytha had thought that she would feel gauche and countrified and she expected to have nothing to say to Lord Locke’s fashionable friends.
Perry, however, was on her left.
He immediately began to talk about horses, while Lord Locke on her other side soon joined in.
Because the only interest available to Gytha at The Hall was horses, she not only loved them but had read about them.
She followed all the races that were reported in the newspapers and she had learnt the history of racing throug
