“I shall want to practise again when we reach the Palace and try out the piano for one thing and also be certain that the acoustics are right. It is so important to me that we must not take any chances.”
“No, of course not, Professor,” Andrea agreed.
“We will do anything you ask us to do.”
“Now you must all lie down and sleep,” the Professor said, “and I myself will perhaps take forty winks. I find travelling quite tiring and we left very early this morning.”
It was really another way of saying, Tora knew, that he had had a sleepless night worrying because she was coming with them.
To reassure him that there was no need for him to do so, she smiled at him, then obediently, because he had asked it, she went upstairs to her bedroom.
She took off her peasant dress before she lay down on
