That night when she went to bed she thought about Le Roi and was certain that, as he was the only animal in his enclosure and without a companion, he must be lonely.
She thought it was typical and what she would expect of the Marquis, to make the tiger cub love him and then, as he grew older to abandon him as he doubtless abandoned a woman, without a thought for his suffering.
When she awoke early the next morning, almost instinctively her feet carried her through the garden and out through the door in the wall.
She saw that the lions were sleeping close together and made straight for the tiger’s cage.
Because she had been so much alone at The Dower House and had nobody of her own age she could play with, Theresa had automatically tried to attract the deer in the Park, the birds in the
