CHAPTER SEVENLolita was asleep when the maid called her.
After she had drawn back the curtains, the maid came towards the bed just as Lolita opened her eyes.
“It’s nearly eight o’clock, ma’am, but there’s no need to hurry. His Lordship’s said he’d like you and Master Simon to come to the stables at half-past-eight.”
Lolita was surprised, but she did not say anything to the maid. Instead she walked through the schoolroom into Simon’s room to see if he was awake.
He was sitting up in bed playing with some toy soldiers he had found in the fort which had once been his father’s.
“Your uncle wants you to ride with him at half-past eight,” Lolita told him.
“Yes, I know and I’m going to show him how I can ride so that he’ll give me a bigger horse, though I still love my pony.”
“I think you
