Chapter TwoThe next morning Richard left for London.
Before he departed he said to Meta,
“I was thinking it all over in my bed last night and I want you to engage more servants immediately just in case the Prince prefers not to bring his own.”
“Would that be a mistake?” Meta asked.
“The fewer strangers we have in the house, the easier it will then be to know who calls on him,” Richard replied.
Meta thought for a moment.
Then she said,
“That is, of course, if I am to be accepted in the drawing room. As you say, I am to be employed as a Governess. I may have to sit upstairs alone in my bedroom.”
Richard had not thought of this, but he answered her,
“I think that is very unlikely. What you will have to do is to make sure that, whatever the Princess does, you do it with her.”
When th
