CHAPTER TWODenise arrived the next afternoon.
Alina watched in amazement from the window of the drawing room as the coachman and footman carried a number of trunks into the house.
They hauled them up the stairs and into Alina’s bedroom and, as soon as they had done so, Denise started to open them.
“I have brought you Mama’s luggage,” she said. “It has her initials on it and looks, I am sure, much more luxurious than anything you have.”
Alina was aware of that and she also saw the initials ‘A.L.’ on the trunks.
Before she could ask the question Denise said,
“You must remember that Mama’s name was Alice.”
“Of course it was!” Alina exclaimed. “I had almost forgotten.”
“I suddenly thought of the luggage when I was driving home,” Denise said with glee. “As soon as I told Papa that Lady
