“You might have been killed! Forgive me, Fenella, I should have asked you first how you were, but as it happens Anna had already told me.”
“I guessed that,” Fenella said, “and I am sure she gave you a scolding at the same time.”
“A scolding!”
Lord Corbury put up his hands in horror.
“Do not speak to me of all the things that Anna has said to me these past two days! I felt at any moment I might be sent back to school with a request to the Head Master to punish me for my misdemeanours!”
“Anna has always been the same,” Fenella said, “she loves us both so much that she goes about in a state of terror in case either of us should break our necks.”
Lord Corbury sat down on the seat recently vacated by Sir Nicolas.
“You know I would not have had it happen to you for the world, Fenella,” he
