Chapter FiveWhen she was dressing for dinner, Lady Esther said to Lucy as casually as she could make it sound,
“I understand that the Marquis of Windlesham has living at Windle Court his old Nanny and she is some relation of yours.”
There was a pause before Lucy replied,
“Yes, my Lady.”
“How interesting,” Lady Esther said. “Do you often hear from her?”
“Oh, no, my Lady,” Lucy answered quickly.
Lady Esther was quite certain that she was lying. She could not, however, think what she could do about it.
She therefore said no more, but thought that somehow, sooner or later, she would trap Lucy in some way.
In the meantime she wrote several frantic letters to the Marquis and all of them remained unanswered.
She also asked a number of her friends to call at Windle House to hear if there
