Chapter 11Carina was awakened by a housemaid pulling back the curtains. For a moment she could hardly believe that she had been asleep.
When she had gone to bed, she thought that she would lie awake all night, reliving the events of the day. But from sheer exhaustion she had dropped into a dreamless slumber and now she felt as if she was being dragged back to earth from some far distant planet.
The housemaid put down the tray of morning tea beside the bed and withdrew almost noiselessly. She had obviously been taught her work well by Mrs. Barnstaple.
Carina sat up in bed and stared across the room to where someone had removed the stain of blood from the floor and there was nothing now to indicate where Sir Percy had fallen.
Had it all really happened, she wondered, or was it just a fig
