CHAPTER TWOCaroline rode as quickly as she could away from the stables.
She avoided the front of the house in case some of the servants were looking out of the windows and kept in the shadows of the trees until she was on flat ground where she could gallop her horse.
The old groom who had taught her to ride was, she knew, so devoted that he would never tell her parents anything she did not wish them to know.
“Ye’re ridin’ late, my Lady,” he had said when she came into the stables.
“I feel I need some fresh air,” Caroline replied, “but please do not tell Mama or I know she will be cross with me.”
“I don’t tell ’er Ladyship nothin’,” the old groom replied. “She ain’t interested in me ’orses.”
That Caroline knew was a cardinal offence in his eyes, but it meant too that she would be safe
