Chapter Three“And after you had luncheon, what happened?” Penelope insisted.
As she spoke, she thought that her sister looked very pale and the long day in London had been too much for her.
Penelope had met her sister at the crossroads and Alisa had been silent all the time they were walking back through the village.
Only now, after she had washed and changed, was she able to tell Penelope what had happened when she visited Mrs. Lulworth’s shop in Bond Street.
Penelope had listened entranced as Alisa described how she had gone to the dressing room at the King’s Theatre to show Madame Vestris the pots of cream and how the gentleman she was entertaining had said he would pay for them and had taken her back to his house in Berkeley Square.
She had described the dining room and the librar
