CHAPTER SIXElizabeth passed a really good night thanks to the medicine that the doctor had given her.
When she woke up in the morning, she felt more like herself.
She insisted, as the doctor was calling again at any moment, that Colena tidied her hair and put a pretty frilly bed jacket on her. She powdered her nose and added a little lipstick as well.
“You might be dressing yourself for a handsome gentleman in London,” Colena teased her.
“I hate looking scruffy,” Elizabeth replied, “and the doctor is so kind. I feel much better than I did yesterday and I most certainly don’t want him to see me looking as if I have just fallen down the chimney!”
“Well, he should be here soon and I am going down to have breakfast with, I hope, our host.”
Colena paused before she said,
“He is so kind a
