She was quite certain that today would be full of surprises and she knew that there were a thousand questions she wanted to ask the Earl.
She rang the bell and, when Rose came hurrying to answer it, she remarked,
“You’re ever so early, miss.”
“Actually I thought I was late. I am usually up long before this,” Minella replied.
“Nobody else is even awake,” Rose told her. “It was nearly three o’clock before the other young ladies came up to bed.”
“I was lucky to get away so early,” Minella said with a smile.
She climbed out of bed and washed and Rose helped her into a very elaborate gown that Connie had approved of for her to wear in the morning.
Minella thought that her mother would have considered it ridiculously overdressed, but that was what the other girls would be wearing and Mine
