Chapter 14
At midday two days following the terrible event that had changed Celeste’s life forever, Mary announced that Raphael was waiting in the drawing room and that he intended taking her to see the animals in the Tower.
‘He says he’ll not have your ill health on his conscience, and that as you’re so soon to be wed you must go out at least today to take the air,’ Mary reported.
Celeste, who was still in bed, pulled the covers over her head and declared she had no intention of ever seeing another human being ever again, much less any mangy, half-starved performing animals.
Then Raphael came marching up the stairs, throwing the door open and saying in unusually jovial tones, ‘Enough of your moping. Get dressed, Celeste, and let me prove that you’ll not be consumed by fire and brimsto
