“Then if you can fetch the trunk here without there being any commotion about it,” Mina said, “and help me to pack it, I will be able to get away first thing tomorrow morning. I will leave a note for her Ladyship, which can be given to her later in the day.”
“I’m sure that’d be best, miss. But what about his Lordship?”
“I don’t wish him to know either,” Mina said firmly. “The reason I have to go is a family matter, and something I must deal with entirely by myself.”
“P’raps it would be wiser if his Lordship’s valet tells his Lordship when he calls him.”
“No, no!” Mina responded quickly. “That is something I have no wish to happen. Promise me, Rose, promise you will say nothing to anybody until after I have gone.”
Rose looked at her in a rather bewildered fashion, but being a good-natu
