“How can you say such wonderful things to me?” Nanny asked. “I am so very afraid that when you know the truth, you will wish you had not said them.”
The General smiled.
“If you think I am going to lose you after looking for you all these years, you are very much mistaken.”
He paused for a moment before he added,
“Come along, my darling one, tell me the truth and then we can talk more comfortably about our future.”
‘Perhaps,’ Nanny thought to herself, ‘there will be no future.’
Looking across the garden with unseeing eyes she said in a voice that did not sound like her own,
“I am Nanny to Raina – and have looked after her since she was born. My father was a vet and, although my mother was the daughter of a country Squire, he was not of any particular consequence except that he had se
