Chapter 5
Arthur de Lisle was grilling Isaac when Lydia made it down the stairs only a few minutes past the time she’d been expecting him. It seemed they were in the middle of an important discussion, and she wondered if he had been early, and she’d only just been informed of his arrival the way her father was firing questions at him. Mr. Edwards seemed calm and collected, sitting in the parlor across from her father, his top hat resting on his knee. As she entered the room, she heard him say, “My faith is of utmost importance to me. The fact that your family is also Roman Catholic is assuring.”
Lydia went to church faithfully every Sunday, as did both of her parents. And her distant cousin Henry. While her father seemed pleased that Mr. Edwards was religious, she wondered what might hap
