CHAPTER SEVEN:
THE ROYAL VERDIC
As soon as they entered the house, Monsieur Jacques le Berger paused before the main door. He nodded and then shook his head.
“ Where is my bride-to-be?” he asked, impatiently glancing here and there.
He adjusted the collar of his jacket and dismounted his mare.
Then he went nearer to the front door hopping to meet his bride-to-be and make acquaintances with her as quickly as possible.
Miss Tina smiled with confidence.
“ I believe she is with her mother in her room,” Miss Tina had quite assured the groom-to-be.
She came from the terrace and stood before Pauline’s room.
She called her name seven times but received no responses from within Pauline’s room.
“ Pauline!” she had called for the eighth time visibly worried. “The groom is at the main doo
