Chapter FiveForty minutes later Vida walked out through a side door into a courtyard to see the Prince’s magnificent travelling carriage drawn by six horses waiting in the sunshine.
She was dressed in the uniform of an outrider, her red hair covered by a white wig and a peaked velvet cap.
She wore a short livery jacket of claret trimmed with gold braid, which was the same as was worn by the servants in The Castle and below it white buckskin breeches and highly polished boots.
She would have felt embarrassed if any of the five other outriders had looked at her, but as soon as she appeared they mounted the horses that were brought from the stables one by one by the grooms.
Vida was helped onto the saddle of a magnificent thoroughbred, which she knew was of Hungarian origin.
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