Chapter ThreeThe Earl held the door open and Ivana was just about to go through it when she stopped. She looked up at him and then said to him,
“Thank you again – thank you very – very much. I am so – grateful for this opportunity.”
She looked so lovely as she spoke that the Earl stared at her.
Unexpectedly he pulled the door to and exclaimed,
“No! I have changed my mind!”
Ivana felt as if her heart had turned to stone.
“Ch-changed your – mind?” she stammered. “You mean – I c-cannot – help you?”
“Of course you can still help me,” the Earl replied, “but in a different way.”
He walked back to his desk and, sitting down, rang the bell.
Ivana followed him and her eyes looked anxious as she then sat back down on the chair that she had just risen from.
The door opened and a soldier app
