Chapter Five“It’s ever so excitin’, miss! What do you think’s happenin’!”
As she spoke, Jeannie seemed to burst into the nursery and Atayla, who was reading Felicity a story, looked up in surprise.
“What is it?” she asked.
She did not think that anything that Jeannie would call ‘exciting’ was likely to happen, for the last six days at Roth Castle had been very quiet.
Unexpectedly the Earl had gone away and the house in his absence seemed to settle down into a comatose state.
What was more, the servants seemed more relaxed and certainly much more pleasant to Felicity and to her.
The chef sent up special little dishes to tempt Felicity’s appetite and Atayla thought that no one could complain about the excellent suppers she had, with dishes which she had never tasted before, but which s
