“Not much fear of that,” the butler replied. “We have two nightwatchmen in the house and there be a man in the stables and another in the garden during the night.”
“I had no idea, but makes me feel safe.”
“His Lordship’s seen to it and there’s enough locks and bolts on the house to keep an army at bay.”
When they were alone, she said to Pepe,
“I wonder what time your father will arrive?”
“He usually comes in the afternoon. Then he hears how cross the Governess is and he gives me a lecture.”
“Well, this time he will have a surprise,” Eleta said. “We must think how we can astound him with everything you can now do that he has never seen or heard before.”
Pepe thought that this was a good idea.
“We’ll give him such a surprise that he will want you to stay here for ever and ever, which
