Just for a moment she felt a sudden panic creep over her, then she realised that it was not she that Lord Manville was backing but Pegasus. Pegasus would show them all what a horse could do!
“I declare it is too bad,” Lais cried, “that Foxy should choose me. I meant to ride for you, Silvanus, I have even brought Firefly with me.”
“I wonder who arranged that,” Lord Manville said, one of his most cynical smiles just lifting the corners of his mouth.
‘There is something behind all this,’ Candida thought to herself.
She felt as if it was all part of a play and that it had all been planned. Who was Lais, who was so familiar with Lord Manville and who seemed to have a special place by his side? And why should Sir Tresham Foxleigh be behaving in what was obviously, even to someone as ignorant
