“Mr. Masters told us as how we were to keep that door shut and barred, sir.”
“It is her Ladyship who gives orders here,” the doctor said gruffly and the footman stepped back with a murmured apology.
Nerina had an idea. She turned first to one footman and then to the other.
“Each of you carry one of these silver candelabra,” she said. “The doctor and I are going out onto the steps. We want to be seen. You will hold them on either side of us.” The footmen looked dismayed, but they obeyed her.
The shouts and yells from outside were rising in ferocity as if with the instinct of caged animals the men sensed that something was about to happen. The doctor opened the door.
There was a yell as they saw the light and then, as Nerina appeared with the doctor at her side and the footmen in attend
