Meta drew in her breath.
“It seems very strange that he should behave in such a way. Was he English?”
“Funny you should say that, Miss Meta,” Bell replied. “He looked all right, but there be somethin’ about him that made me thinks he might be one of those foreigners.”
Meta said little more.
She just told Bell that he had been absolutely right in not allowing anyone so odd into the house.
At the same time she was quite certain that the man had an ulterior motive in wanting the job.
Was it because he could help the Prince in some way or was he in fact spying on him?
It all seemed so complicated and so she thought for a moment that she would not worry Richard with it.
Bell had sent the man away and there was nothing more he could do unless, of course, he was a burglar and then she was
