An Unexpected Friend
As the carriage journeyed toward London, Isabella didn't know whether to feel relieved or apprehensive; relieved that she was no longer under the authority of Our Lady Of The Immaculate Conception and Sister Teresa, apprehensive at the fury she was sure to face from her parents at her expulsion from the school and the circumstances that had brought it about. She was still furious at Geoffrey for what he'd tried to do to her. The stable manager had told Sister Teresa what he'd seen, and the director had been so angry that she hadn't even allowed Isabella to tell her version of the story. At least Geoffrey had been dismissed from his position as a stable boy, so he hadn't gotten off scot free either, she told herself gloomily. When they finally arrived at Whitehall Palace, Isabe
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