She was very fortunate to be hiding successfully where she was so comfortable.
Besides, being with Nanny she felt protected.
‘It would be very silly of me to make a fuss,’ she thought. ‘I shall just pretend my eyes are shut and that I neither see nor hear anything unusual.’
Equally she knew that the Marquis would have to deal with this situation sooner or later.
She wondered how he would manage it.
And soon she found that she just could not help longing to see what they had stolen from their unhappy victims.
‘I must see their loot! I must!’ Imilda mused.
There was a secret passage in their house at home and she had played in it as a child.
It was only a very short one, because when her grandfather added the new wing, they had blocked off most of it.
She was certain that the secret
