chapter sevenIdona arrived home at The Manor so early in the morning that the sun was only just rising up the sky.
It made the diamond-paned windows glow with gold and she felt as if they welcomed her.
She rode into the stable yard and as she did so she heard Mercury begin to stamp and whinny and knew that instinctively he was aware that she was here.
She dismounted and as she did so old Ned came out of the stable to stare at her in surprise.
“I weren’t expectin’ you, Miss Idona!”
“I have come back on one of his Lordship’s horses, Ned.”
“’E be a very fine animal,” the groom exclaimed appreciatively.
“He brought me from London as if he was flying in the sky,” Idona replied. “His Lordship, I expect, will be collecting him later in the day, but whoever comes for him, will you say that
