She must have shuddered, for the Marquis turned his head to ask, “You are all right? You are not cold?”
“No – of course not,” Diona replied.
They changed horses a little later, but the Marquis stayed only as long as it took to take one team from between the shafts and replace it with another. Then they were on their way again.
Roderic was travelling with Sam in another Phaeton, and Diona guessed without asking that the Marquis was determined to break his own record, if possible, and certainly to reach London well ahead of them.
When they finally arrived at Irchester House, Diona looked at him apprehensively, wondering what was waiting for her there.
She walked beside him into the large hall and saw an elderly man come forward to greet him.
She knew from the conversation she had liste
