She had never in her life seen any man as handsome as the gentleman called ‘Rudolf’ and she wondered just who he could be and who he was staying with.
There were so many different households in Hampton Court that it was quite impossible for her to begin to guess which one he was a guest in.
It took her quite some time to reach the apartment in the South-West wing in the North-West front occupied by Baroness von Dremhiem.
The Baroness’s husband had been a distant relative of the Prince Consort, Queen Victoria’s husband, which was why she had been accorded a Grace and Favour house at Hampton Court.
She was an old but very intelligent woman and she lived alone. And she had welcomed the suggestion from Zorina’s mother that Zorina should improve her German.
Zorina had already learnt the gr
