Chapter Thirteen
TERESA WAS SURPRISED when her maid informed her that she had a visitor.
“Please inform his lordship and say that I will be down in a moment,” she told the maid, who was still standing at the door waiting for instructions.
“But his lordship has gone out, my lady.”
Teresa was stunned. “Gone out? Where? When?”
“I… I don’t know where, my lady. He went out just after… after ten this morning.” The maid had gone pale at Teresa’s expression.
Teresa stood still absorbing this unexpected news. “He didn’t say when he’d be back or where he was going?”
“No, ma’am.”
“All right. I’ll be down shortly,” Teresa said, with as much calm as she could muster.
As soon as the maid left, Teresa began to wring her hands and pace back and forth. What was she going to do? Lord Stowe was dow
