“There is a great deal,” Mr. Barnham interrupted and described in detail exactly what he required.
*
Travelling in the Marquis’s fastest and most comfortable carriage the next day, Romana felt that she was still dreaming.
But now the dream was no longer the terrible soul-destroying nightmare that it had been since she had arrived in London.
It was still hard to credit that what was happening to her was real.
Yet the fact that she was in a carriage drawn by four of the best bred horses she had ever seen and sitting beside the gentleman, who spoke to her in such a kindly and gentle manner, was somehow soothing after all the turbulence in her mind, which had made her feel at times that she must be going insane.
Never, until she met Lord Kirkhampton, had Romana ever known real fear.
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