Feeling like a schoolgirl about to be reprimanded, Theresa walked along the passage towards the library, which was on the other side of the château.
She had found out which was the Marquis’s special room when she had first explored the whole place and had thought it very attractive with several fine bookcases and a number of pictures of horses that gave it a very masculine look.
As she entered the room, the Marquis was sitting at a very ornate Louis XIV desk, but he rose and moved to stand in front of the fireplace which Theresa noticed with satisfaction had already been filled with flowers as it was too warm for a fire.
She knew that the gardeners must have arranged it very early and she had the idea that by noon all the rooms the Marquis was likely to use would have big vases of flowe
