Chapter FourComing down the huge staircase with the Rocklington ancestors in gold frames on the walls and the flags that they had won in battle arranged round the marble fireplace, Helga felt that now, definitely, she had stepped into her dream and was a part of it.
The gown she was wearing was a very simple girl’s dress in white trimmed with lace and that too made her feel like a Fairy Princess so that her eyes were as bright as stars.
Her feet seemed almost to fly down the stairs until she reached the hall.
The Duke had told her that she was to meet Mr. Vanderfeld before dinner as he and his daughter were arriving late and would only just have time to change.
This meant that they would not yet have met any of the rest of the house party to whom Helga had been introduced earlier in th
