She did not know what he could do to save her.
She only turned to him because she loved him and because at the moment he was the only secure and stable thing in her whole life and he filled it to the exclusion of all else.
“Listen, Susanna,” Fyfe said quietly, “I want you to go into the garden and hide yourself. Stay away until I send for you. I will deal with this.”
“Papa – will insist on – seeing me.”
“Leave everything to me. I promise you need not be afraid.”
“Papa will be very – angry with me and – Mama will be – furious. How could they have – found me?”
“Just do as I tell you,” Fyfe urged, “and go at once. Otherwise if your father insists on seeing you he will find you here.”
His words made Susanna jump to her feet like a startled fawn.
Almost as if she could hear her father's
