Chapter 30
Kew Park was a distance of some ten miles from London, and with the swift carriages that Lord Elstone had procured, was a journey of less than two hours. Disappointingly for Jemima, she found herself travelling with Kitty, Miss Pargeter and Lord Elstone in the coach that seated four persons, while the Earl of Southwell and Mr Owen travelled in the barouche. Lord Elstone was doubtless thinking of her comfort, since the coach was considered the more comfortable vehicle, but she would have preferred the more open carriage..
The presence of Kitty’s father restrained the kind of conversation that Kitty and Jemima might have wished to have had. This constraint, plus the ordeal of two hours discussion of botany and horticulture, left both girls fairly loathing the very thought of pla
