Chapter FourOwing to the bad weather there were frequent delays on the journey by train, which Lydia actually enjoyed.
Instead of stopping for only a short time at the wayside Stations they would be held up for perhaps two or even three hours.
When this happened, the Earl and Sir Robert said that they must have some exercise, and they would walk off into the countryside having instructed the guard to signal them by bursts on the engine’s whistle when it was time for them to return.
Whenever it was possible and Heloise would allow it, Lydia went with them.
She had been sensible enough, knowing where they were going, to pack the thick boots she wore at home and since it was so cold her father had bought her, at one of the Stations, a fur coat made from white goatskins.
He had given Helo
