CHAPTER SIXJacina lay listening as the musicians tuned their instruments in the ballroom below.
The wedding party in the morning was small, as the Earl had wished, but the ball that evening would be well attended. All the most prominent families of the district were invited.
Coaches were already rolling up to the castle entrance. There were squeals as ladies gathered up their skirts and hurried to come in out of the rain that had begun to fall.
Jacina turned her head on her pillow and sighed.
Her fever had abated since the visit of the Earl. This was partly due to the bitter black potion Sarah had administered and partly due to her enormous relief of spirits, once she knew that the Earl now believed her.
She had even begun to feel hungry and Sarah had immediately gone to the kitchen t
