Meta could not keep still because she was feeling too agitated.
So backwards and forwards she went, hardly aware of what she was doing, only deep in her thoughts.
Finding no answers to her questions and for the moment no reply to all her prayers, she went back to the drawing room.
It was Richard who said that it was time to dress for dinner.
“This is ridiculous. Wherever the Prince went, he should be back here by now unless, of course, he has had an accident.”
“You cannot suggest,” Nathlia said, “that Alexis would have an accident when he was riding.”
“He could have taken too high a fence and fallen and hurt himself or the horse,” Richard said.
“I have never known Alexis do anything so silly as to put a horse at a jump he would not take or fall off when he should be sitting in the s
