She drew in her breath before she added,
“I think that it would be wise for you to take us to somewhere safe. You know that our friends in Vienna are always asking us to visit them.”
“We may be able to do that a little later on,” the Count said.
“If we wait too long, it may be impossible for us to leave. In fact we could all be in prison,” the Countess replied.
The Count put his fingers to his lips as if to warn her not to say too much in front of the servants.
But the Countess carried on regardless,
“I am just incredibly frightened! Frightened for the children’s sake as well as our own. I have been praying as everyone else has in the City that you would bring us some good news from Her Majesty Queen Victoria.”
“I have to say to you exactly the same as I have told everyone else,” th
