‘I must definitely help her avoid another unhappy marriage,’ Orlina determined.
At the same time because she was going to London she felt rather helpless and ignorant. She was stepping into a new world that she knew nothing about and the idea of meeting the Earl and his friends intimidated her.
“Do have a good time, my dear,” Sir Nicholas said when he kissed his daughter goodbye. “You deserve all the excitement you can get having been buried alive here with only me to talk to.”
“I have been very happy, Papa,” Orlina replied.
“You have been so very helpful. I just don’t know what I shall do without you to help me translate these old manuscripts I have just discovered.”
”I will go with the work when I come back,” Orlina promised her father.
She knew that the manuscripts he was talking
