Chapter SevenDiona awoke with an irrepressible feeling of happiness.
She lay for a moment thinking how wonderful everything was and how never again would she be so frightened or so lonely as she had been before the Marquis came into her life.
Then she realised that Sirius was looking at her over the edge of the bed, and it was he who had awakened her.
“I expect you want to go out,” she said.
She pulled the bell and almost immediately the housemaid who looked after her opened the door.
“Will you ask somebody to take Sirius out into the garden?” Diona said. “And please ask them to stay with him.”
“Very good, miss.”
As Sirius bounded towards the door, knowing he was to be taken out, Diona added, “What time is it?”
“Nearly eleven o’clock miss.”
Diona gave a little cry of horror.
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