Chapter SevenAs Azalea crossed the Hall and ran up the broad staircase she knew that the servants looked at her in surprise and that one of the Aides-de-Camp, coming out of a Sitting Room had also caught sight of her.
She was well aware that to them she must look extraordinary in her Chinese costume.
She could only hope that Lord Sheldon would find some plausible excuse which would not infuriate her uncle even more than the knowledge that she had been on a Chinese junk.
When she reached her bedroom she locked the door behind her, feeling somehow it would protect her against the storm which she knew would be brewing downstairs.
Now the consequences of her actions began to come home with a vengeance!
There were the explanations she must contrive to make, and she began to tremble at the
