“That is a good idea,” Tarina agreed.
“In the meantime, I will tell Bates that you are staying here and to bring up your baggage.”
“I am afraid I did not bring it to the house with me.”
“Then where is it?” Betty enquired. “Or have you left it in the country?”
“I brought everything I possess to London,” Tarina replied. “I was planning that if you gave me a reference I would go at once to a Domestic Bureau in Mount Street, which I was told is the best place – ”
“That will not be necessary now,” Betty interrupted.
“So I left my luggage,” Tarina went on, “although there is not a great deal of it, at Paddington Station.”
“I will send a footman to collect it.”
Betty walked from the bedroom into the boudoir where a butler and two footmen were setting a teatable.
There was an enormous amo
