CHAPTER FOURRomana came down the stairs nervously wondering where she should go and it was with a sense of relief that she saw the Groom-of-the-Chambers waiting for her in the hall.
She was wearing one of the new gowns that had been bought for her in London and was, she thought, so beautiful and so elegant that she should be wearing it at a ball rather than for what she anticipated would be a quiet evening with the man who had made her shiver even to think of him.
But everything that Mr. Barnham had ordered in London was so exquisite and so very different from anything that Romana had ever owned before that she felt as if they forced her to play a part that was not herself.
The housekeeper had produced a maid who she said would look after her and who had arranged her hair skilfully in a
