“Those who know about him and they are very few,” Captain Ludlow remarked, “are amazed that any man could have done so much and so cleverly without dying at least a dozen times.”
“You are – quite certain he is – safe here?” Delia asked him with a little tremor in her voice.
“The Major and I will do everything we possibly can to ensure it,” Captain Ludlow replied quietly.
Delia was aware that now it was Captain Ludlow who slept in Lord Kenyon’s bedroom and he was with them only when Higgins was on duty upstairs.
Both Officers were fully armed for any eventuality.
Delia wondered if anybody outside the house had the slightest idea of the tension they were experiencing inside it.
Nothing was more difficult than having to wait for something to happen.
Now she stopped massaging Lord Kenyo
