Chapter FiveThere was a loud rat-tat on the front door that echoed through the house and Penelope looked at Alisa and smiled.
“More flowers?” she exclaimed.
The room certainly did not look as though it needed any more and the two girls were overcome every day with the bouquets that kept arriving at their aunt’s house and the invitations which poured in.
The servants had already complained that their feet were giving out from running up and down from the basement to answer the front door and even Lady Ledbury was astonished at the commotion her nieces were causing.
What was more, the more traditional hostesses had included her in their invitations and, while at first Lady Ledbury wished to refuse, it was Alisa who persuaded her to attend one or two of the assemblies and Receptions they
