“If they are as fortunate as we are, very very happy,” Lencia answered.
“How can you be sure that it applies to us?” the Duc enquired.
There was no time to answer him as the carriage drew up beside them.
Alice and Pierre had been waiting for them on the road and then they drove back to the Château.
Lencia noticed that the Duc made himself very pleasant to Alice and it was as if he was reassuring her after being so upset and frightened.
‘He is very kind and considerate,’ Lencia thought to herself.
And she was also very touched by the way that he had treated the small son of one of his woodmen.
‘I feel sure that all the people on his estate adore him,’ she mused.
They had a delicious tea and then the Duc and Pierre said that they were going to play billiards.
This gave Lencia an opp
