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She hadn’t lost the baby. There was no repetition of the blood loss, the doctor made encouraging noises and Evie began to breathe again. She also started eating again – determined not to do anything else to put her unborn child at risk.
Three days after Douglas had come to see her, she summoned Aunty Mimi to the drawing room and gave her instructions to clear Felicity’s things out of her former bedroom.
‘I don’t care what you do with them. Burn them if you like. Give them away. Sell them. But I don’t want them in this house any more.’
Aunty Mimi’s face contorted into a look of defiance. She started to speak but Evie lifted her hand for her to stop.
‘The tuan has told me he had instructed you to clear out that bedroom, yet you didn’t, so you’d better do it right away. And I don’t wa
