CHAPTER EIGHTNurse came into the schoolroom and Larisa looked up expectantly.
She had spent the whole morning, it seemed to her, waiting and yet the message she had hoped for had not come.
Now she held her breath.
“Madame would like to speak to you.”
“MadameThat was not what Larisa had wanted to hear.
At the same time it was better than sitting helplessly, longing to see Comte Raoul but knowing that it was very unlikely he would send for her.
She had learnt from Nurse what had happened yesterday afternoon.
The two bodies, Monsieur le Comte’s and Jean-Pierre’s, had been laid out by the women on the Estate. They were then taken to the Chapel where they would remain until the funeral.
Nurse told Larisa how before this Comte Raoul had sent for the local doctor and informed him there ha
