Finally, because she felt on edge and it was impossible to relax, she peeped carefully out of the door to see that the corridor was empty and there was silence in the whole of the front of the house.
Swiftly, with bare feet and putting nothing over her nightgown, she slipped into Rosebel’s room, which was only two doors away from hers.
As she expected, there was no one there, but the fire was burning brightly and she saw that the bed was turned down and Rosebel’s nightgown arranged on it by a housemaid.
Rosebel had mentioned during the day that her lady’s maid had been left behind at the last house she stayed in and would not be arriving until tomorrow.
Idona thought that perhaps this was another reason why she was so intent on being with the man she loved tonight.
She folded the nigh
