And then she began to think how she should behave when they met.
‘At least I have time to consider it,’ she thought. ‘It would be much worse if Papa had arranged for me to be married tomorrow before I had time to draw my breath.’
Even so two weeks, with one day already gone, was not a very long time in which to prepare for her whole life.
And so different from how she had envisaged her future.
She had been so certain that she would have time to meet people in the Social world and time to go to the balls that she had heard so much about.
Some of the older girls at her school had described them to her dramatically.
“I was so afraid,” one said, “that I would be a wallflower and that no one would ask me to dance. But they actually queued up and in the end I had more partners than there w
