Chapter Seven
“There are two ladies,” said Miss Bridget to Cordelia. “They want to hire you together. They have a somewhat complicated relationship, as far as I can make out. I am not quite sure where you will fit in, but no doubt they will make clear what they want you to do.”
Cordelia was a serious-minded girl, and clever. She attended to her studies assiduously. She didn’t much care for the excited chatter that passed for conversation amongst most of Miss Bridget’s girls, instead preferring solitary reading, or a walk in the grounds. She dressed rather severely, often in a grey flannel skirt, white blouse and sweater, not too tight. Miss Flora had observed about her that there probably wasn’t a single pair of jeans in her wardrobe.
Her face had a certain nobility about it. Though she
