She looked down at him for a moment, then went to her own room and locked and bolted the door. Although she was desperately tired when finally she got into bed, she found it difficult to sleep.
All she could think of was Jeffrey Farlow’s evil eyes looking at her as she had heard him saying they were to be married that evening.
Then she thought of the leopard and felt for the first time the tears coming into her eyes.
He would not even know what was happening to her, she thought.
Perhaps in a day or two he would return to Larks Hall and Mrs. Briggs and old Rouse would tell him that she and Richard had disappeared and he would not know where they had gone.
She turned her face into the pillow.
Then at last a tempest of weeping overcame her and she cried until she fell asleep from sheer
