Chapter FiveTheresa came very slowly down the backstairs, not troubling to be quiet because there was nobody to hear her and let herself out through the garden door.
The dawn had only just broken and she doubted if even the servants were yet awake and going to the kitchen for their first cup of coffee.
They had gone to bed surprisingly late the night before, because unexpectedly, almost as if an explosion had occurred, the Marquis had come home.
In the three weeks that Theresa had been at the Château Sare she had been so happy that she had almost forgotten there was a Master of the château who employed her.
When she had first arrived, she had been apprehensive in case, as Gennie feared, the servants were hostile and disagreeable and that she would feel humiliated by them.
Instead, as
